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pre.printer {white-space:pre-wrap; background-color: #eee; border: 1px solid #aaa; font-size:90%;} At the Computer History Museum, we recently obtained card decks for a 50-year-old computer music program. Back then, most computers didn't have sound cards but creative programmers found a way to generate music by using the line printer.2 We were a bit concerned that the program might destroy the printer, but we took the risk of running it on the vintage IBM 1401 mainframe. As you might expect, m...