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 ...

The National Museum of Computing, located at Bletchley Park, celebrated the 70th anniversary of Colossus, the first partially programmable electronic computer. Colossus went into service on February ...

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Newly-discovered acetate recordings of one of the first computers in the world playing music may cause the history of videogame music to be revised. A Ferranti Mark 1 computer in Manchester, England ...

A crackly analogue recording made in 1951 is the earliest known example of a digital computer making music, say UK historians. The Ferranti Mark 1 computer was built by UK electrical engineering firm ...

Fans of music made with obsolete technology are in for a treat: recordings of a Ferranti Mark 1 computer playing Baa Baa Black Sheep and In the Mood were recently released, and they are thought to be ...