"In those pre-miniaturization days, the ordinary operation of the central processor generated so much radiation that you would put a transistor radio on the console and tune it in between AM stations. From the other side of the room, the tone of the static indicated whether the machine had crashed or not." In 1965 I took a summer course in programming at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. We were using an IBM 1620. One day a professor came into the computer room, put a portable transistor radio on the console, and then loaded up and ran a program. The radio proceed to play an actual melody (don't remember what). Apparently he had figured out what commands would create particular tones. A very cool hack indeed.

Jack Douglas - legendary producer of John Lennon, Aerosmith, Patti Smith, etc - recently produced an album of crossover classical music that incorporates rock, R&B, funk, etc. Some new & interesting stuff here. If you only have time for one tune, check out Bounce #3