The magnets might be powerful enough to rattle mechanical parts, especially if it’s a prototype.
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A very high pitched whine, mostly when they’re being turned on. More so in decent-sized TV sets then the smaller CRT monitors.
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Machine Learning about bticoin.
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That I remember.
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I couldn’t understand that at all. I think I need counterfeit coffee. I’d buy some, but I don’t have any Wild Richard.
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The flyback transformer will make a distinct hum, but usually at the top threshold of the audible frequency range or a bit beyond - most people won’t hear it at all. It sounds like there was a heavy-duty cooling system going, pretty much equivalent to what you’ll hear in a server farm, which wouldn’t surprise me at all, as there weren’t yet any minicomputers in 1962.
What you are seeing is probably best described as a smart terminal, probably a CRT and a dedicated (I/O) channel processor, very likely working as a peripheral of a nearby mainframe. The CRT undoubtedly uses tubes, but the bulk of the circuitry is going to consist of discrete germanium (probably, although silicon was starting to be used) transistors. Transistors were invented in 1949, and were starting to be well-commercialised by the mid-1950s. Transistors would be far more cost-effective than tubes in this application, but would still generate considerable heat, so computer rooms tended to be tightly climate-controlled, and that did create a distinctive sound environment.
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You may or may not find the dealings of McDonald’s and Disney interesting, but at approximately 3:40 the original Ronald McDonald makes his appearance. Played, of course, by Willard Scott.
The ad, featuring an unending chain of hamberders materializing out of Ronald’s groin, might have inspired Stephen King to write “It.”
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A lot of animation problems, but interesting discussion:
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This is both highly cool and the stuff of primordial horror stories.
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I assume this refers to people rather than wooly mammoths?
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I think they mean individual woolly mammoths.
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I read it wrong, as in the hut belonged to the w.m.'s, not the bones. SMH.
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An MNI of 95 wooly mammoths.
See? That’s proof positive that God won’t let us damage the climate beyond repair. If someone weren’t watching over us, killing mammoths at that rate would have made them extinct millennia ago.
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Awesome. This reminds me of an old record album my dad had of various Bach pieces on harpsichord or pipe organ.
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It may be just me, but doesn’t it seem as though the left hand side of the keyboard was quieter than the right hand side?
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I think those are shorter levers and have less angular momentum, or something like that.
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I thought it might be microphone placement.
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Probably because he’s playing those lower notes quieter - the clavichord is very touch-responsive with regards to dynamic levels. When the left hand has had notes that fit the “main line” (quotation marks because the piece is mainly unaccompanied compound melody), the dynamic level has been pretty much in line with the right hand. What I do notice is a marked (but smooth) change in tone colour from top to bottom.
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