Digital PDP-8 DECUS Music Papertapes
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Digital PDP-8 DECUS Music Papertapes |
by Bill Degnan - 01/03/2019 09:18 |
 decus papertapes from 1969 would likely have been written for the a PDP-8i. This is not the same as the RF music program demoed elsewhere on this web site. Click on image for larger view.
TAPE LABELS: 8-152a 8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #1 8-152 8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #2 8-152 Teddy Bear's Picnic Symbolic 8-152a Penny Lane Symbolic 8-152 Joy to the World Symbolic 8-152 Your Mother Should Know Symbolic 8-152a Penny Lane 0037-7720, 0170=7777 0171=7777, 0172=7750, 0173=6020 Binary 8-152 When I'm 64 0037=720, 0170=7776 0172-7750 8-162 MUSIC FOR THE PDP-8 Load Tunes: 440 Play Tunes: 400 "Start 8 Music" (hand-written, no printed label) ------- NOTE: These programs appear in the DEC DECUS catalog, Nov 1969: DECUS No. 8-152 PDP-8 Music Program Submitted by: D. A. George R. G. Smith and D. j. Harrison, Carleton University, Carleton, South Carolina The coding program allows the user to type a song on the Teletype and produce a coded binary tape of that song. It accepts musical information in a form more compatible with ordinary sheet music and converts it to a coding scheme. The playing program plays the song "Penny Lane" via the coding program with the use of a power amplifier and speaker. Minimum Hardware: Tape/Disk Transfer Programs PDP-8 with D/A Converter, power amplifier, and speaker Source Language: PAL III Reply |
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