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It goes back even further than that. My father, at the time an operator on a Honeywell 6000, demonstrated a program (loaded from paper tape!) that played "Daisy" if you held a transistor radio next to the CPU. The choice of song was appropriate: 2001 A Space Odyssey had come out a few years earlier.



"Daisy" as a demonstration of the audio capabilities of computers dates back to 1961:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell#Computing_and_techn...


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