Programmed Data-1 Program (PDP-1) is perhaps more distinguished as the residence of SpaceWar!, one of the first world video games, but as the video At the height prove, it also works as a greater and slow iPod as well.

In video, Canada’s planks “Olson” Playing paper repair paper fed and programmed with PDP-1 engineer and conficiency of the Komberunistandy History Museum Docent History Peter Samson. This is the final product of Joe Lynch’s PDP-1.Music Project, an attempt to interpret the short and atmospheric song of something that PDP-1 can do.

As lynch wrote to Github“Harmony Compiler” used to translate “Olson” on the paper tape made by Samson to play audio through four computer lights while he was a student at the MIT in the 1960s. He used it to recover classical music, but it works with ’90s electronic music in a pinch, too.

“While these bulbs were originally intended to provide computer operator status information,” Peter puts four-generators (or four-bit gentle-ripped, written by a single bulb and mixed by an emulator which tape feeds on PDP-1.

It’s a hard process for playing even the simplest songs, but it is worth hearing nostalgic music planks from an elderly classic computer.