“Olson” on PDP-1 using 1962 Harmony Compiler. I don’t like linking to YouTube, but here we are; this is breathtaking, a late 1990s song played on a late 1950s computer, 75 years later by the original creator of the music playback hack, Peter Samson. The colours of the machinery, the base elements of computation exposed before circuit boards came to be, the design aesthetics arranged perfectly, the oscilloscope display, layers of nostalgia for things that predated but shaped me passing by as Joe’s punched tape passes by at the end of the film, an elegy to DEC