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Here’s the story of how the Mac and Atari found their voice
There’s something magical about the moments in history when computers were able to speak (and sing) like a human. That’s certainly true of Bell’s famous “Daisy Bell” performance (the real-life moment echoed in 2001). But it’s also true of the Mac, which first spoke to uproarious applause.
Read moreRetroCade Synth Board Re-programs Itself Into Atari, C64, Amiga [Open Source Hardware]
You know in sci-fi how you’ll see robots and other machines that can transform, re-program themselves on the fly for a new task? (Okay, sometimes they’re evil robots.) Well, imagine a single-board – looking a bit like an ultra-compact computer – that does that for sound, and you have the basic notion of the RetroCade […]
When Detroit Met Holland: Sterac “Secret Life of Machines” Documentary, Re-release Coming [Video]
Musical history seems to happen when things collide, when things get mixed up – certainly in the twentieth, and now the twenty-first century. And so it is that one of the most important “Detroit techno” records ever released came out of Amsterdam. If this were a new artist, the long string of endorsements from a […]
Peter Kirn - May 8, 2012
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