Tech Time Warp of the Week: The 1968 Computer That Sings 'Daisy Bell' A look at the early days of electronic art and music. The music reminds you of the oldest arcade video games.

Recorded by Bell Labs back in 1961, the room-scale mainframe machine was programmed to sing the 1892 banger Daisy Bell, the first time computer-synthesised vocals and accompanying music were ...

There is more than a casual link between computer people and musicians. Computers have created music since 1961 when an IBM7094 sang the song Daisy Bell (later inspiring another computer, the HAL ...