Sinclair Spectrums join together with Raspberry Pi to solve 33-year old programming problem

When the ZX Spectrum was launched in 1982, chapter 19 contained a programming problem: use the BEEP command to play Mahler’s first symphony funeral march. Well, some programmers from Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science, led by Matt Westcott, have taken 12 Spectrum computers and networked them together with a Raspberry Pi. The Pi controls the individual Spectrum computers in order to achieve playback. Read more here or take a look at the video below:

 

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