World’s Oldest Computer Music Discovered. It’s From 1951
18 Jun, 2008 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnord, music
Click the pic to an article about the Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a consumer version of Baby 1, one of the old room filling, vacuum tube monstrosities. The music sounds about what you’d expect. God Save The King, and a snippet of Glenn Miller’s In The Mood. You can hear the melodious strains by clicking here. BBC doesn’t have video you can embed, hence the links.
and appropriate for the time…
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/06/19/the-birds-barbie-dol.html
OH MY GOD! I think that is the funnies thing I have seen in YEARS!
sorry to put it here… but I don’t have your e-mail at work…
Really makes you appreciate ones Ipod.
Great and interesting site you have here, and I see this came from boing boing another trippy site.
Thanks for posting this.
I have a friend, in Belgium, who loves Barbies like that. He’s a bit kinky, has several pics of Barbie in… unorthodox apparel.