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Re:Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th ... by DonHopkins on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:21PM (#28351020)
AM Radio Computer Music:

Conway's Game of LIFE in a DEC PDP-7 w/ Type 340 Display

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB78NXH77s4&ab_channel=Livin...

Early computer graphics -LIFE - 4 Gosper Glider Guns on a DEC PDP-7 Type 340 display

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhvOw7vW4iA&ab_channel=Livin...

DEC PDP-7 w/ Type 340 display running Munching Squares and Spirograph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4oRHv-Svwc&ab_channel=Livin...

Also PDP-7 related (but with more melodic music), here's a video remix I made of an early CAD system called PIXIE (with the first known implementation of pie menus, using a light pen) running on a PDP-7 with a type 340 display, networked with a Titan mainframe, at the University of Cambridge (one of the first network distributed graphics systems), set to music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDrqR9XssJI&ab_channel=DonHo...

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