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The IBM 7090 Computer sings "Bicycle Built For Two" a la 2001 A Space Odyssey

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The album is called "Music From Mathematics Played by I.B.M. 7090 Computer and Digital to Sounds Transducer", Decca Records, DL 9103. There is no year listed on the record.

In the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", HAL 9000, the computer, at the end of his life, sings a verse of "Daisy" or "Bicycle Built For Two". Kubric did that on purpose, based partly on this sound recording. This record represents the first successful attempt to get a computer to reproduce the human voice in song.

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