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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Poil
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> I am surprised that nobody has yet figured out a way to do it
> with valve technology or something even more primitive. There
> must be someone out there who can best the last post.
Well, the "old-timey" player pianos were pneumatic, and the "scrolls
with holes" that played them were arguably equivalent to "program card
decks". And given the mechanical sophistication of 17th-century pipe
organs, I'd not be surprised to learn that someone had built at least
one "player pipe organ".
-jc-
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