The latest episode of Usagi Electric explores making music with the oldest running computer in America, a Bendix G15 vacuum tube computer.

It’s not especially impressive musically, but it’s a fascinating journey to see what was needed to get the ancient computer to output sound.

Check it out and share your thoughts on this in the comments!

Topics covered:

0:00 The oldest running digital computer in America
4:47 Repairing the modified typewriter
9:42 What was modified?
12:16 Punching a new tape to properly test this beast
13:48 First test of the new tape
17:30 Modifying a one of a kind machine…
18:07 What do the mods do?
20:12 Okay, what just happened?
24:41 Merry Christmas y’all!
26:18 Get after it Kono!