Making Music With The Oldest Running Computer In America


The latest episode of Usagi Electric explores making music with the oldest running computer in America, a Bendix G15 vacuum tube computer.

Though it’s not especially impressive musically, but it’s a fascinating journey to see what was needed to get the ancient computer to output sound.

Watch the video and share your thoughts on this in the comments!


Topics covered:

0:00 The oldest running digital computer in America

4:47 Repairing the modified typewriter

9:42 What was modified?

12:16 Punching a new tape to properly test this beast

13:48 First test of the new tape

17:30 Modifying a one of a kind machine…

18:07 What do the mods do?

20:12 Okay, what just happened?

24:41 Merry Christmas y’all!

26:18 Get after it Kono!


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