[Coco] Music with Floppy Drives & Hard Drives

[Kip Koon]

Allen,
Back in 1976 when I was in the 11th grade, I took a BASIC computer
programming class using an IBM 5100 series computer.  I think it was a 5110
and it had in addition to the standard Qwerty English keyboard, it also had
some strange symbols on the key caps that were used in a language called
APL.  I can't figure out how someone would have come up with that language
at all.  Anyway, someone had written in BASIC using these strange characters
to sound out the rhythm of the William Tell Overture on the printer.  It was
great!  The printer was bidirectional and the program took this into account
and used that feature beautifully.  I have always wanted a copy of that
program.  :)
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Allen Huffman
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 3:26 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Music with Floppy Drives & Hard Drives

On Apr 17, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> You can actually hear the musical notes coming from the stepper motors 
> moving the Read/Write Head assemblies!
> 
> I'd like to see someone do this with a Coco.  It would make a great 
> demonstration of yet another thing the Mighty Color Computer can do.

Back in my CoCo 1 days in Houston, someone told me there was a demo program
that played Ghostbusters, and used a printer to type out percussion while
the music played. I never saw it anyone, and always wondered about that.

		-- Allen


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