The Programmed Data Processor-1 (PDP-1) is perhaps most recognizable as the home of Spacewar!, one of the world’s first video games, but as data-i13n=”elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1″ class=”link ” href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubkrBd3-gg” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:the video;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>the video above proves, it also works as an enormous and very slow iPod, too.
In the video, Boards of Canada’s data-i13n=”elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1″ class=”link ” href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_lzNFjqGiw&list=RD6_lzNFjqGiw&start_radio=1″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:"Olson";elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>”Olson” is playing off of paper tape that’s carefully fed and programmed into the PDP-1 by engineer and Computer History Museum docent Peter Samson. It’s the final product of Joe Lynch’s data-i13n=”elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1″ class=”link ” href=”https://pdp1.music” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:PDP-1.music;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>PDP-1.music project, an attempt to translate the short and atmospheric…
