The First-Ever Bit of Computer-Generated Music Ever Created Has Been Restored
Back in 1951, computers were room-sized things powered by hot, finicky vacuum tubes that required multiple people to program and operate. British computer scientist Alan Turing was in the middle of it all, creating the foundations of all the devices were have today.
Working at the Computing Manchester Laboratory in Manchester, Turing figured out how to get a computer to play a couple of tunes: “God Save the King,” “Baa Baa Black Sheep” and “In the Mood” by Glenn Miller. Those computer performances were then transferred to an acetate disc, demonstrated a few times and then filed away.
When the disc was pulled out decades later, it was discovered that the audio was distorted and not anywhere near what Turing had his machine play. The good news is that scientists at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, got hold of the audio, tweaking and filtering it until it was returned to its original condition.
Turing served Britain well, but was persecuted by the government because he was gay. Depressed and suicidal, he killed himself by taking a bite out of an apple that he had laced with cyanide. And now you know what the Apple logo has a chomp taken out of it.
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That isn’t why the Apple logo is like that, it is only a coincidence; Stephen Fry dispelled the myth on an epsiode of QI where he says he was able to ask Steve Jobs that very question and he confirmed that it was merely a coincidence. At about the 2:10 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRrjsYFdVo
alas, as lovely as the Logo-as-Turing-tribute is, it’s not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Logo