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DEC LAB-8/e (PDP-8/e) playing music
Philipp Hachtmann
A 1971 DEC LAB-8/e (PDP-8/e) minicomputer plays music by inducing noise into a nearby AM radio. The software is Richard Wilson's 1975 Music Compiler running under OS/8.
HN cites it as an early example of making a computer emit music over AM radio through electromagnetic side effects.
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