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Re: How It's Made



On Feb 10, 10:21 am, Senor Wences <burker.jos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 7:39 pm, Greg Buchner <n...@none.invalid> wrote:
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> > You can watch part of this segment, including showing the IIe here:
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> > >http://science.discovery.com/videos/how-its-made-self-playing-pianos....
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> > Greg B.
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> There's a great thread on the AppleFritter forum about a British
> gentleman who uses Apple //e computers to produce pianola rolls:
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> http://www.applefritter.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.pl?board=apple2;action=...
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> Not only does he have custom boards he built but he wrote his own
> operating system in 6502 code. Fascinating.
>
> Josh

Indeed!  That was a rather interesting read -- did he ever upload any
of the scans of his custom hardware?  I'm also curious how his
application appeared -- seemed he used a split-screen display in the
same style of Bob Bishop's Money Munchers title screen.  Very
fascinating, especially considering WHEN he did it all.

-B