Someone programmed a 65-year old computer to play Boards of Canada's 'Olson'

The Programmed Data Processor-1 (PDP-1) is perhaps most recognizable as the home of Spacewar!, one of the world's first video games, but as the video above proves, it also works as an enormous and very slow iPod, too.<br /> In the video, Boards of Canada's "Olson" is playing off of paper tape that's carefully fed and programmed into the PDP-1 by engineer and Computer History Museum docent Peter Samson. It's the final product of Joe Lynch's PDP-1.music project, an attempt to translate the short and atmospheric song into something the PDP-1 can reproduce. <br /> As Lynch writes on GitHub, the "Harmony Compiler" used to translate "Olson" to paper tape was actually created by Samson to play audio through four of computer' [...]