whygee <whygee@yg.yg> wrote:

< But computers and radios have had a long story of love & hate.
< On some old IBM tube-based mainframes, there was a radio reciever
< that picked up the internal noise, which the operators were used to.
< When the machine hung, the operator would instantly "hear" it...

I use to hear stories about computers with speakers actually
connected to some internal signal. The same idea, when the
sound was repetitive the program was in a loop, and the
operator would kill it.

My father had problems with programs that were supposed to
have long loops getting killed too early.

-- glen