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DEC LAB-8/e (PDP-8/e) playing music4:06

DEC LAB-8/e (PDP-8/e) playing music

50K views • 18 years ago
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.
Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)22:24

Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)

431K views • 9 years ago
CuriousMarc
Lyle Bickley of the PDP-1 restoration team tours the 1959 DEC machine at the Computer History Museum and plays the original Spacewar! He covers its graphics display and the MIT student programs written for it.