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The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer. The Mark 1 is a commercial version of the Manchester Mark 1 machine from the University of Manchester. The music program was written by Christopher Strachey. 1951: US EDVAC (electronic discrete variable computer). The first computer to use ...
Stephen White, A Brief History of Computing; The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems. The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012.
Computer music systems and approaches are now ubiquitous, and so firmly embedded in the process of creating music that we hardly give them a second thought: computer-based synthesizers, digital mixers, and effects units have become so commonplace that use of digital rather than analog technology to create and record music is the norm, rather ...
History of artificial intelligence; History of compiler construction; History of computer animation; History of computer science; History of computing hardware (1960s–present) History of floating-point arithmetic; History of hypertext; History of numerical solution of differential equations using computers; History of operating systems ...
Eventually, the concept of numbers became concrete and familiar enough for counting to arise, at times with sing-song mnemonics to teach sequences to others. All known human languages, except the Piraha language, have words for at least the numerals "one" and "two", and even some animals like the blackbird can distinguish a surprising number of items.
History of Computers (1989–2004) in PC World excerpts; How It Works – The Computer, 1971 and 1979 editions, by David Carey, illustrated by B. H. Robinson; PC History Stan Veit's classic work on the history of Pre-IBM personal computers. WWW-VL: Internet History Archived 2020-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
The Macintosh II is the first to use the death chimes, using the Apple Sound Chip to play a loud and eerie upward major arpeggio, with different chimes on many models. The Macintosh Quadra , Centris , Performa , LC , and the Macintosh Classic II play a generally softer and lower pitched version of the upward major arpeggio, followed by three or ...
With Jason Long he restored some of the first computer music recorded on the Ferranti Mark I. [7] Copeland has held visiting professorships at the University of Sydney, Australia (1997, 2002), the University of Aarhus, Denmark (1999), the University of Melbourne, Australia (2002, 2003), and the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom (1997 ...