From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Cc: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: Music!
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:23:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VQO+Ygd6U6uR+iqO3T5SKaZc=7Ws0BAV9S99cCxz1heNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wpmai3u40.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
On 2/10/23, Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:
>
> The MIT AI lab seemed to favor Beatles and Bach.
That they did. In the late '70s I was interning at IBM's Cambridge
Scientific Center, which at that time was on the 4th floor of 545
Technology Square in Cambridge MA. We had about half the floor. The
other half was part of MIT's AI lab. Our timesharing terminals were
in a room with a rather thin wall with the AI lab on the other side.
Someone in that room was debugging a music-playing program. The test
song was the Beatles' "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite". I got to
listen to that being played incessantly (and often wrongly) for an
entire afternoon, sometimes with one note being held for many seconds
when a breakpoint was hit. It drove me crazy.
-Paul W.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-10 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-10 0:37 [COFF] Music! Mike Markowski
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 [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CABH=_VQO+Ygd6U6uR+iqO3T5SKaZc=7Ws0BAV9S99cCxz1heNA@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=paul.winalski@gmail.com \
--cc=coff@tuhs.org \
--cc=lars@nocrew.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).