[ih] Internet sounds

Scott Bradner sob at sobco.com
Tue Apr 26 12:55:46 PDT 2022


I learned programming on the PDP-1 prototype at Information International Inc (Tripple-I) 
it had a Macintosh amp tied to the low order bit of the accumulator register - easy to tell
when you had a programming loop :-)

Scott

> On Apr 26, 2022, at 3:51 PM, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> I was wondering what sounds people associate with the early Internet.
> 
> For instance, I remember the clatter of teletypes, Telebit and Hayes modem tones, VT52 buzzes, the RF interference caused screeches from the AM radio perched near IMP #1, the PC/IP telnet "chirp", the sound of a DECwriter, etc.
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> (I also wonder if anyone might have recordings, particularly of the VT52 razzy buzz or the PC/IP telnet "chirp".)
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>     --karl--
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