[ih] Internet sounds

Andrew Walding awalding at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 12:58:29 PDT 2022


I would add the sounds of the daisy wheel printers and dot matrix printers
to the list.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 2:56 PM Scott Bradner via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > (I also wonder if anyone might have recordings, particularly of the VT52
> razzy buzz or the PC/IP telnet "chirp".)
> >
> >     --karl--
> >
> >
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