From: Mike Markowski <mike.ab3ap@gmail.com>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Music!
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 19:37:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f278982-4616-7fe0-ef2f-37ecd4f2ff23@gmail.com> (raw)
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This is far afield even for COFF, so apologies up front. Machines and
OSes we fondly remember get older day by day. But many labs I worked in
during undergrad & grad years and then in the workforce always had a
radio going, and music never seems to age. When I hear Earth, Wind &
Fire's "September" or Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes," it's
RSTS/E on a PDP11/70 as a teen, my first exposure to computers.
Kraftwerk and Big Audio Dynamite mean Unix with Mike Muuss at Ballistic
Research Lab in the early 90s. I had PX (military Post Exchange)
privileges which Mike used to the fullest to buy fantastic lab
speakers. The old ENIAC room, our work space, had thick walls. :-)
I wonder if particular music transports any others back to computing
days of old. The current lab I'm in receives exactly 1 radio station
from a local high school and streaming is blocked. Not sure that any new
musical memories will be formed for my ever nearer days of retirement!
Musically yours,
Mike Markowski
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-10 0:37 Mike Markowski [this message]
2023-02-10 1:19 ` [COFF] Music! segaloco via COFF
2023-02-10 1:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-10 6:35 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-02-10 15:23 ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-10 19:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-02-10 19:05 ` Bakul Shah
2023-02-10 21:09 ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-11 2:53 ` steve jenkin
2023-02-11 4:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-11 19:24 ` Harald Arnesen
2023-02-11 16:40 ` Mike Markowski
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