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Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts) Sun Aug 3, 2014, 04:42 PM Aug 2014

Dot Matrix printer plays Eye of the Tiger

I heard about this on the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast this weekend. Remember dot-matrix printers? Remember the noise they made? Some clever person created a program that turned those sounds to music. Here it is playing Eye of the Tiger.

I'm impressed!

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Dot Matrix printer plays Eye of the Tiger (Original Post) Ron Obvious Aug 2014 OP

And to think I threw out all mine years ago... n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2014 #1

Very creative. n/t JimDandy Aug 2014 #2

My favorite piece of music made with computer parts... caraher Aug 2014 #3

Very Nice! Ron Obvious Aug 2014 #4

Or the opening to James Bond on floppy drives sakabatou Aug 2014 #5

Very nice! Ron Obvious Aug 2014 #6

So neat TxDemChem Aug 2014 #14

Kicking. Thank you. nt littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #7

There's one of those in my attic. sinkingfeeling Aug 2014 #8

[The User] - Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers OnyxCollie Aug 2014 #9

I just had a Nerdgasm NightWatcher Aug 2014 #10

I freaked out a friend with this bit of code.... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #11

How about "Bonecrusher"? Or ...... marble falls Aug 2014 #12

Gotta love SGU TxDemChem Aug 2014 #13

That thing can sure jam! Blue Owl Aug 2014 #15

One of my faves, although more modern in nature of tech JackInGreen Aug 2014 #16

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. And to think I threw out all mine years ago... n/t

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Sun Aug 3, 2014, 04:45 PM

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JimDandy

(7,318 posts)

2. Very creative. n/t

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Sun Aug 3, 2014, 04:52 PM

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caraher

(6,278 posts)

3. My favorite piece of music made with computer parts...

Reply to Ron Obvious (Original post)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 08:25 PM

Aug 2014

House of the Rising Sun

The Eye of the Tiger one is good too!

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

4. Very Nice!

Reply to caraher (Reply #3)

Sun Aug 3, 2014, 11:57 PM

Aug 2014

Impressive bit of work.

sakabatou

(42,158 posts)

5. Or the opening to James Bond on floppy drives

Reply to Ron Obvious (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2014, 12:14 AM

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Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

6. Very nice!

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #5)

Mon Aug 4, 2014, 12:55 AM

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I bought 3 5 1/4" floppy drives for a dollar each the other day, assuming at least one of them would work well enough to get some data off of some old disks. Turns out they all work fine and 99% of my 30 year old floppies were still readable, even the single sided ones I had turned into double sided ones with a scissors! Amazing technology!

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)

14. So neat

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #5)

Wed Aug 6, 2014, 08:29 PM

Aug 2014

Never saw a James Bond film, but I like what they did with the drives

littlemissmartypants

(22,694 posts)

7. Kicking. Thank you. nt

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Mon Aug 4, 2014, 10:08 AM

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sinkingfeeling

(51,460 posts)

8. There's one of those in my attic.

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Mon Aug 4, 2014, 11:07 AM

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OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)

9. [The User] - Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers

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Mon Aug 4, 2014, 01:52 PM

Aug 2014

http://www.theuser.org/dotmatrix/en/intro.html

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

10. I just had a Nerdgasm

Reply to Ron Obvious (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2014, 02:16 PM

Aug 2014

I remember in college my friend had a printer that was so slow, he told it to print, made sure it was working, and then we went to the mountains a couple of hours away to go rafting for the day. We came back and it was about to finish his paper. He was printing from an old Commodore