As you probably know, that song is in that movie as an homage to a recording made in 1961 of an IBM 7094 "singing" that song. Vocals were programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum: the synthesized accompaniment was programmed by Max Mathews. The recording was released in 1962 on a Decca LP entitled "Music from Mathematics"
Scott, your posts keep bringing back memories of my own early days with computers. So many parallels with you. My first programming when I was in high school was on an IBM of some sort at our local college (Keuka College), where we wrote FORTRAN programs and entered them onto punch cards, one line per card, then fed them into the card reader and got the output from a teletype-type printer. This was, like you, in 1976. The first computer I owned was a Timex-Sinclair 1000, which I think I got for about $100 in 1982 or 1983, hooked it up to my 13" TV and tape recorder. I was all set for BASIC programming, which I used to sharpen my programming skills because I got roped into teaching FORTRAN at a community college and had to be marginally better at it than the students I was teaching. I upgraded to a Commodore 64 when I had a bit more money, but in 1990 finally got my first Apple computer, the Mac LC. That was a delightful computer - wish I still had it in my collection. Thanks for sharing your memories Scott - it's like looking back at our first loves.
I visited GW last summer and went to the lab. Now it's a little office. I met the teacher who uses it and the adjacent classroom. He'd heard some stories about an old-timey computer lab and figured that's why his classroom is filled with AC outlets. I think he's right.
I couldn't afford a TRS-80, so I had a Sinclair ZX81 instead (which my dad assembled). But, like you, I devoured BYTE and all the other magazines. I even bought the Atari and Apple magazinesl; they were my dream books.
As you probably know, that song is in that movie as an homage to a recording made in 1961 of an IBM 7094 "singing" that song. Vocals were programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum: the synthesized accompaniment was programmed by Max Mathews. The recording was released in 1962 on a Decca LP entitled "Music from Mathematics"
You can hear it on YouTube, here: <https://youtu.be/41U78QP8nBk?si=pTvpYnxc-V2k-aJA>
or on Spotify here: <https://open.spotify.com/track/5iaGZ2ThB1gzqwj9zWg3Sn>
Thanks - I believe I knew this and forgot.
Scott, your posts keep bringing back memories of my own early days with computers. So many parallels with you. My first programming when I was in high school was on an IBM of some sort at our local college (Keuka College), where we wrote FORTRAN programs and entered them onto punch cards, one line per card, then fed them into the card reader and got the output from a teletype-type printer. This was, like you, in 1976. The first computer I owned was a Timex-Sinclair 1000, which I think I got for about $100 in 1982 or 1983, hooked it up to my 13" TV and tape recorder. I was all set for BASIC programming, which I used to sharpen my programming skills because I got roped into teaching FORTRAN at a community college and had to be marginally better at it than the students I was teaching. I upgraded to a Commodore 64 when I had a bit more money, but in 1990 finally got my first Apple computer, the Mac LC. That was a delightful computer - wish I still had it in my collection. Thanks for sharing your memories Scott - it's like looking back at our first loves.
Thanks! I really enjoy writing them down and putting them out into the world.
>Mac LC
The pizza box!
(as it was known)
I love that pic from the GW lab
I visited GW last summer and went to the lab. Now it's a little office. I met the teacher who uses it and the adjacent classroom. He'd heard some stories about an old-timey computer lab and figured that's why his classroom is filled with AC outlets. I think he's right.
I couldn't afford a TRS-80, so I had a Sinclair ZX81 instead (which my dad assembled). But, like you, I devoured BYTE and all the other magazines. I even bought the Atari and Apple magazinesl; they were my dream books.