Boards of Canada - Olson, on a PDP-1 from 1959.
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Boards of Canada - Olson, on a PDP-1 from 1959.
”The PDP-1 was never intended to produce audio […] It does however have six "program flags," which are flip-flops wired to six light bulbs on the control panel. A CPU instruction provides the ability to turn these light bulbs on or off via software.”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wubkrBd3-gg
https://computerhistory.org/blog/pdp-1-sings-boards-of-canada/
#BoardsOfCanada #dec #pdp1 #RetroComputing #ComputerHistoryMuseum -
Boards of Canada - Olson, on a PDP-1 from 1959.
”The PDP-1 was never intended to produce audio […] It does however have six "program flags," which are flip-flops wired to six light bulbs on the control panel. A CPU instruction provides the ability to turn these light bulbs on or off via software.”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wubkrBd3-gg
https://computerhistory.org/blog/pdp-1-sings-boards-of-canada/
#BoardsOfCanada #dec #pdp1 #RetroComputing #ComputerHistoryMuseum@remaster Shouldn’t the name of the piece be Olsen, though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Olsen
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