On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:04:57 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke
> 
> "The floppy drive of the Commodore Amiga personal computer could be made
> to produce noises of various pitches, by making the drive heads move
> back and forth. A program existed which could play El Cóndor Pasa, more
> or less correctly, on the Amiga's floppy drive.[5] As some sounds relied
> on the head assembly hitting the stop, this gradually sent the head out
> of alignment."
> 
> Oh. My. God.

Yep, I remember seeing demos of this type of thing.  Could be done with 
some printers as well.

Jim

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