Very nice. The people who designed the HP scanjet 5P built something similar into the scanner's hardware. If you set it to SCSI ID 0, hold down the green button and turn it on, it plays Für Elise.
The stepper motor in the scanner gives different tones at different speeds so they even added a set of scsi commands so you can make your own music.. From your flatbed scanner.
Good grief. Some people have really, REALLY too much time on their hands.
This reminds me of the old mainframe days, with the large chain-driven printers, where programs existed to play various songs (such as "Dixie") on the printer, by forcing the printing of certain characters for specific amounts of time. Only worked if you allocated the printer to the program directly, of course. Didn't work if you printed to the queue and then had the queue manager print the characters. (Sheesh. I'm having flashbacks to IBM 360 Job-Control Language.)
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Very nice. The people who designed the HP scanjet 5P built something similar into the scanner's hardware. If you set it to SCSI ID 0, hold down the green button and turn it on, it plays Für Elise.
The stepper motor in the scanner gives different tones at different speeds so they even added a set of scsi commands so you can make your own music.. From your flatbed scanner.
Heh heh, I didn't know that.
Nerds, eh! ;)
Good grief. Some people have really, REALLY too much time on their hands.
This reminds me of the old mainframe days, with the large chain-driven printers, where programs existed to play various songs (such as "Dixie") on the printer, by forcing the printing of certain characters for specific amounts of time. Only worked if you allocated the printer to the program directly, of course. Didn't work if you printed to the queue and then had the queue manager print the characters. (Sheesh. I'm having flashbacks to IBM 360 Job-Control Language.)
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