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Oldest Computer Music Unveiled

Posted by timothy on from the except-for-accidental-john-cage-bits dept.

drewmoney writes with a cool story from the BBC, which says that "A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music. The article also collects some other very interesting bits of computer history.

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  1. 2^127-1 by furrydave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "If you wante to know if 2^127-1 is a prime number, you can get the machine to give you the answer in a matter of days, it takes a week to set it up and..."

    That kind of thing always makes me smile. First off, how complicated the whole setup is to do this.

    Honestly, this is just amazing to watch. Thanks for the link!

    Oh, and I remember the first voice I ever heard from my computer. It was either a gold game ("Oh, got a hold of that one!" or Mach-3, a really cool racing game that would say it's name when you turned first started playing it... man, I miss that game :-)

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