The first minute or so the annoying noise of the program being downloaded into the Sinclair from a cassette tape, but the coolness starts at 1:09. I want to know how he got the disk drives to act as speakers.
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those crazy kids…
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this was featured on hackaday.com last year, super easy!
Big Deal,
back in the late 60’s, (yea we had computers then ! ) we could make the IBM 1400 series printer sing just about any song you wanted to hear AND print out a “graphic” page at the same time !
Brilliant Uncle Dave, keep up the amazing finds.
They should have titled the video “Styx”. Whoever did this certinly has TOO MUCH TIME ON their HANDS!
Cool, though.
Was the scanner being used as the bass? I almost bought one of the Sinclairs l o n g ago.
It brings back many memories. A computer tech/manager/programmer since 1966 – 1440 IBM main frame with RAMAC’s ………. Very refreshing
ErnieGs
About the hard drives… well, they do have “voice coils” in them, so I’m thinking that he just wired them up to an amplifier output channel.
Looks too be a artsy film project as much as anything else. Makes me suspicious of the correlation between what is being heard and what is being shown (even with the “mics” in place). I do like it though.
This dude has to get out more.
You can get those brushless motor ESC from hobby shops for pretty cheap with right receiver and transmitter you can hook them up to spin up the hard drives and move the actuator arms. pretty neat stuff to play with. Most ESC have built in tunes and they will play on hdd motors and actuators.
The hard drives head actuators are hooked to the outputs of a regular stereo amplifier.
the sinclair was my first computer. Back in those days kiddies, you could actualy write programs. Of corse it took days and most of the time crashed. kinda like vista.