Computer History Museum

Recordings of synthesized, computer-produced speech. From the record sleeve text: "The examples of synthesized speech on this recording illustrate certain fundamental characteristics of both artificial and human speech. Synthesized speech is a product of Bell Telephone Laboratories [sic] research into the basic nature of speech and hearing ... Scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories have developed a computer program that permits them to feed the names of speech sounds into the computer on punched cards." Speech samples include greetings, a soliloquy from "Hamlet" and both an accompanied and unaccompanied version of "Bicycle Built For Two".

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651519
He Saw The Cat: Computer Speech

Songs played by a Honeywell 800 computer. Album sleeve text: "For your special holiday entertainment… a medley of Christmas carols by a Honeywell 800 electronic computer. A special programming technique that converts punched card input into the computer’s musical tones you hear reproduced in this album makes possible this unusual tribute to the Christmas season… and to you and yours… from Honeywell EDP. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651526
Merry Christmas from Honeywell Electronic Data Processing

11 songs composed and sung in praise of International Business Machines (IBM). Titles include "Paean" (in praise of Charles Lecht), "March On With IBM", "To Thomas J. Watson, President, IBM", "To F.W. Nichol, Vice President and General Manager, IBM", "To C.A. Kirk, Executive Vice-President, IBM", "To J.L. Barton, Resident Manager, Endicott Plant", "The IBM Country Club Song", "Hail to the IBM" and "Ever Onward". Sung by the Association of British Secretaries in America, Ltd. (ABSA).

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651536
PAEAN: an ACT/Inter-ACT Communication

18 songs played by an IBM 7090 computer with a digital-to-sound transducer, using punch cards. This recording contains the first songs composed and played on a computer. The songs, composed by Max Matthews and John Pierce, were recorded by Bruce Strasser at Bell Laboratories.

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651537
Music From Mathematics, Played by IBM 7090 Computer and Digital to Sound Transducer

11 songs composed and sung in praise of International Business Machines (IBM). Titles include "Paean" (in praise of Charles Lecht), "March On With IBM", "To Thomas J. Watson, President, IBM", "To F.W. Nichol, Vice President and General Manager, IBM", "To C.A. Kirk, Executive Vice-President, IBM", "To J.L. Barton, Resident Manager, Endicott Plant", "The IBM Country Club Song", "Hail to the IBM" and "Ever Onward". Sung by the Association of British Secretaries in America, Ltd. (ABSA).

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651538
PAEAN: an ACT/Inter-ACT Communication

A selection of songs performed by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. Distributed as promotional material for software products by Management Science America. Comapny tagline: "We add the genius to computers."

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651539

18 songs played by an IBM 7090 computer with a digital-to-sound transducer, using punch cards. This recording contains the first songs composed and played on a computer. The songs, composed by Max Matthews and John Pierce, were recorded by Bruce Strasser at Bell Laboratories.

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651540
Music From Mathematics, Played by IBM 7090 Computer and Digital to Sound Transducer

<p>An original song performed by an Apple Macintosh computer, written and produced by Bob Mithoff. Lyrics include reference to the Parents Musical Resource Center (PMRC).</p>

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651541
Mac The Rapper: What is Love?

An original song performed by an Apple Macintosh computer, written and produced by Bob Mithoff. Lyrics include reference to the Parents Musical Resource Center (PMRC).

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651542
Mac The Rapper: What is Love?

Two recordings of music originally composed for computers and played here by human musicians. Side one contains the ILLIAC Suite for String Quartet, composed in 1957 for the ILLIAC I. Side two contains the Computer Cantata, composed in 1963 and originally written in SCATRE (an IBM-7064 assembly language) and FORTRAN.

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102651543
Computer Music from the University of Illinois

<p>Album contains recordings of ten pieces composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed on a Moog modular synthesizer. Wendy Carlos utlized an 8-track tape recording system to obtain the multiple takes and tracks required to create the layered sound of the album. Album tracks include Air on a G String; various Bach Inventions; Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring; and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major. On the back cover of LP sleeve: "Electronic Realizations and Performances by Walter Carlos with the assistance of Benjamin Folkman." From the cover text describing the use of the Moog Synthesizer: "Often two pairs of hands and several feet are needed to take advantage of all that the Moog Synthesizer can do, but the instrument is constantly being improved. This album, then, is a proving ground both for the synthesizer and for our collaborative musicianship. We have tried to make our performances musically expressive, electronically idiomatic, and spiritually and musicologically faithful to Bach - conditions probably not totally reconcilable."</p>

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102695358
Switched-On Bach, by Wendy Carlos

Roughly corresponds with "Early Research on Computers at RCA" in _A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century_, ed. N. Metropolis, . Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota.

Type
Audio
Format
Standard Audio Cassette
Catalogue number
102695407

Lecture scheduled for 2:00 PM on June 12, 1976. Roughly corresponds to "Computer Development at the Institute for Advanced Study" in _A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century,_ ed. N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota. Note that mp3 102695408-04-01 refers to the lecture made by Julian Bigelow, while the second mp3 102695408-04-02 is a lecture by Gerald Estrin on the history of computing in Israel

Type
Audio
Format
Standard Audio Cassette
Catalogue number
102695408

Two-sided long-playing phonograph record containing recordings of music by Johann Sebastian Bach played on an IBM 704.

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102695432

Organ performance recorded at the All Saints Church in Pasadena, CA. The organ used in the concert was a ninety-rank Shlicker pipe organ, controlled by a PDP-8 minicomputer. Recording includes songs composed by Franz Shubert, Dudley Buck, Felix-Alexandre Guilmant, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johan Halvorsen and Vladimir Ussachevsky.

Type
Audio
Format
Phonograph Record
Catalogue number
102695437
Unplayed by Human Hands, concert recording of pipe organ controlled by a DEC PDP-8

Includes the Director's Welcome and Historiography: a perspective for computer scientists.

Type
Audio
Format
Standard Audio Cassette
Catalogue number
102695512

Ulam speaks about disussions he and Norbert Wiener had with von Neumann about the interaction of mathematics (or "mathematical physics") and computing, an interaction he calls the "music of the future." Reel covers 10:37 to 11:30 AM. Roughly corresponds to "Von Neumann: The Interaction of Mathematics and Computing" in _A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century_, ed. N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota.

Type
Audio
Format
Standard Audio Cassette
Catalogue number
102695513

Reel covers 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Roughly corresponds to "Computer Developments 1935 - 1955, as Seen from Cambridge, U.S.A" in _A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century," ed. N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rosa.

Type
Audio
Format
Standard Audio Cassette
Catalogue number
102695514

Type
Audio
Format
Standard Audio Cassette
Catalogue number
102695515

Burks traces the development of the stored-program computer from the antecedents of the ENIAC through the first generation of stored-program computers: EDVAC, IAS, WHIRLWIND, EDSAC, UNIVAC I, and others. He begins with a detailed discussion of the ENIAC's hardware and arithmetic design, organization, and differential analayzer, as well as programming and evaluation of the ENIAC. He then discusses the development of high-speed READ-WRITE electronic stores and code organization for the stored-program computer. Reel covers 2:42 to 3:32 PM. Roughly corresponds to "From ENIAC to the Stored-Program Computer: Two Revolutions in Computers" in _A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century_, ed. N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rosa

Type
Audio
Format
Standard Audio Cassette
Catalogue number
102695516