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From: Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Monitoring by loudspeaker
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 09:09:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8cf76d2d-c598-9c5c-3bcc-8b3e0518e313@bitsavers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200712145822.GA72854@fuz.su>

On 7/12/20 7:58 AM, Robert Clausecker wrote:

> That's how you know that the machine is stuck in an endless loop: if it
> was doing something useful, the values would change every iteration and
> you would get white noise again.

Computers are capable of generating PWM speech with a single bit output

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIejqWEV_8w

is an example on the Apple II

or multi-voice music using multiple bits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTaVffknxEY

the sound is not 'white noise' which implies totally random output
any loop in the code will produce a unique sound when it is running




  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-12 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-11  1:08 [TUHS] AT&T Research John P. Linderman
2020-07-11  1:32 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-11  1:51   ` John P. Linderman
2020-07-11 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-11 20:30   ` Warren Toomey
2020-07-11 20:36     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-07-11 21:58     ` Rob Pike
2020-07-11 22:29       ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-12  7:55         ` Ed Bradford
2020-07-12  2:22     ` [TUHS] BTL pranks [was AT&T Research] Doug McIlroy
2020-07-12 11:58       ` [TUHS] Monitoring by loudspeaker (was: BTL pranks) Michael Kjörling
2020-07-12 13:25         ` Dan Cross
2020-07-12 14:58         ` Robert Clausecker
2020-07-12 16:09           ` Al Kossow [this message]
2020-07-12 20:10             ` [TUHS] Fwd: Monitoring by loudspeaker Rich Morin
2020-08-23  8:58           ` [TUHS] " Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-07-23  4:13     ` [TUHS] AT&T Research scj
2020-07-23  6:02       ` [TUHS] Technical decisions based on political considerations [was Re: AT&T Research] arnold
2020-07-23 14:42         ` Larry McVoy

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