Ancient Computer Tunes

BBC has a writeup on the old­est known music pro­duced by a com­puter. My how far we’ve come. Dur­ing the ses­sion, the tem­pera­men­tal machine man­aged to work its way through Baa Baa Black Sheep, God Save the King and part of In the Mood. Fol­low­ing one aborted attempt, a laugh­ing pre­sen­ter says: “The machine’s obvi­ously not in the mood.” Read more … »