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Listen to a 1950s era computer sing 'Jingle Bells'
Here's a new version of Jingle Bells you won't hear played in malls, and it's courtesy of one of the oldest computers in history. Turing archive director Jack Copeland and composer Jason Long have recreated Ferranti Mark 1's Christmas performance for the BBC back in 1951. During that broadcast, the first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer (housed at Alan Turing's Computing Machine Laboratory) performed several melodies created using the sounds it used to emit.
Santa plays "Jingle Bells" on a Christmas version of Accordéon
I just got a nice holiday email from Alex Komorov, the publisher of Accordéon, in which Santa plays Jingle Bells on the new Christmas version of the virtual accordion for the iPad. The holiday version costs US$3.99 and is decked out for the holidays. It includes a learning center where you can learn to play popular songs easily since the keys are lit up directing you what to push. The only holiday song at present is "Jingle Bells," which you can see played after the break. There is also an iPhone and iPod touch app called Baby Accordéon that sells for $1.99; it has not been revised for the holidays. Both Alex and I wish you the Merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years.
