Oh, the good old days; I remember them well.

Back in the days of Music 360, I was the single largest user at my 
university (remote computing with punched cards). All sound was done remote 
in those days because: 1) there was no mainframe academic computing on 
campus; 2) noone had D-to-A converters.

The actual computing was done 60 miles away and stored on digital tapes. I 
would drive across North Carolina, sign out the digital tapes and drive 
another 30 miles to where I had an appointment with an electrical engineer 
at another university to do D-to-A conversion onto audio tape (a 
minicomputer was required - 12 bits as I recall). I'd then drive back home, 
stopping to drop off the digital tapes along the way.

When I got home, I could study the audio tapes. The ones that came out pure 
noise or silence were particularly interesting!

Yes, those *were* the days.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rory Walsh" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:03 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: longevity of software


>I remember Victor talking about some of these computer music pioneers
> in class when I was one of his students. We never could quite grasp
> the idea of someone sending data away to get it converted to audio. I
> believe it took up to 3 weeks in some cases just to get your data back
> as audio. We live in simpler times.
>
> Rory.
>
>
>
> 2009/5/19  :
>> It was magnetic tape - this was in 1978
>>
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