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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: A new level of Geekhood
Date: 6 Sep 2007 21:43:20
Message: <46e0acb8$1@news.povray.org>
Marc Schimmler wrote:
> Reminds me of some C64 Programm that shifted the head of the floppy 
> drive, making music. You had to readjust the head afterwards ... :-)

Or the ones that would play music over a nearby radio by making the 
address lines toggle RFI at the appropriate frequencies.

Or the mainframe at college that loaded a program into the registers to 
play taps over the speaker to let you know it was OK to really, really 
turn off the power.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?


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From: Orchid XP v3
Subject: Re: A new level of Geekhood
Date: 7 Sep 2007 14:10:30
Message: <46e19416@news.povray.org>
My God, what have I done?

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/


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From: St 
Subject: Re: A new level of Geekhood
Date: 8 Sep 2007 08:34:54
Message: <46e296ee@news.povray.org>
Here's another one...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ff_AXVlo9U


   ~Steve~


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From: Sherry Shaw
Subject: Re: A new level of Geekhood
Date: 8 Sep 2007 10:26:49
Message: <46e2b129@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> 
> Or the mainframe at college that loaded a program into the registers to 
> play taps over the speaker to let you know it was OK to really, really 
> turn off the power.
> 

...Burroughs B90 trained to "ding" the death march (rhythm only) on the 
system console bell...

Sherry "Pray For the Dead And the Dead Will Pray For You" Shaw

-- 
#macro T(E,N)sphere{x,.4rotate z*E*60translate y*N pigment{wrinkles scale
.3}finish{ambient 1}}#end#local I=0;#while(I<5)T(I,1)T(1-I,-1)#local I=I+
1;#end camera{location-5*z}plane{z,37 pigment{granite color_map{[.7rgb 0]
[1rgb 1]}}finish{ambient 2}}//                                   TenMoons


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