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The IBM 1401 makes "music"
Judith Mopalia
A one-minute demo at the Computer History Museum's IBM 1401 restoration lab, where a program makes the machine's radio-frequency interference play tunes on an AM radio.
HN cites it as the classic early example of a computer producing music through electromagnetic emissions, in threads on System Bus Radio and similar hacks.
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