>>The program that played "Frere Jaques" in stereo took up two three foot trays of punched cards.
The TRS-80 tape deck relay used to be able to rattle out music as well. Those were the days when things were made to last... rattle a relay on modern equipment and a dainty pop will herald the need for new equipment!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
