On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 3:45 PM Van Snyder via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 18:28 -0500, William Sudbrink via cctalk wrote: > > After more than three years, U of Iowa's PDP-8 project active again > > Years ago, I had a colleague named Prentiss Knowlton who built a > solenoid bank to connect to his PDP-8. He put the solenoid bank on the > keyboard of the 90-rank Schlicker pipe organ in the All Saints > Episcopal Church in Pasadena, CA. It played the music for his wedding. > > Later, he published an album of pipe-organ performances, on the same > organ, entitled "Unplayed by Human Hands." > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unplayed_by_Human_Hands > > I don't know whether he still has the computer. > Ooh, very cool! I have his first album (he released two). Looks like he's presently teaching computer science at UCLA ==> https://www.uclaextension.edu/instructors/prentiss-knowlton I'm going to contact him and interview him about this. I'd like to know if the computer could also select different ranks. Thanks for the tip, Van. Sellam Sellam
