Re: [LAU] [OT] first computer ?

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80, which I still own. Next was a
Timex-Sinclair 2068. Remember these???

First music making computer was a home built PC running Planet CCRMA
package. Yes, I was late to the show....

-Joe

Andre Majorel wrote:
> On 2008-10-31 16:23 +0100, Crypto wrote:
>
>> On Friday 31 October 2008 10:47, Dave Phillips wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What was your first computer ?
>>>
>> I used to have a Commodore CBM720 but that was not really useful
>> for making music, though I did some POKE SI+... on it.
>>
>> My first computer truely useful for making music was an ATARI
>> 520 STFM w/ 512kB RAM.
>>
>
> Oric-1. 1-MHz 6502, 64 kB RAM.
>
>
>>> What was the first music/sound software you used that really
>>> hooked you into this making-music-with-computers fad ?
>>>
>
> Don't know if that "hooked me" into anything but the first
> serious music software I used was a software drum machine I
> wrote on the Oric.
>
> Sound generation method was one channel of square wave
> oscillator and one channel of noise from the built-in AY-8912.
> A sound consisted of an array of (square freq, square vol, noise
> freq, noise vol) tuples. Every 10 ms, the next tuple was poked
> into the 8912's registers.
>
> The Oric also had a relay to switch the cassette recorder in and
> out of pause mode. The program could open and close the relay at
> specified times, which I used to trigger an MS-20.
>
>
>> BTW: Does anyone remember the famous SPEAKTEX.TOS program used
>> in so many music productions? Would love to have something like
>> it running on linux...
>>
>
> Sure do. Didn't realise others used it. It was lots of fun. Has
> anyone reimplemented it ?
>
>

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