A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music.

The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester.

Those Brits, man, they know their music. Audio and video located here. This is of note because rather than vacuum tubes, it used Oompa-Loompas for all of the heavy lifting.

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