Peak Tapes 📼 / Music on Instagram: "In 1961, an IBM 7094 mainframe made history at Bell Labs by becoming the first computer to sing. Programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum, with accompaniment by Max Mathews, it performed the 1892 classic "Daisy Bell." This milestone proved that machines could synthesize human speech and music, famously inspiring the haunting "death" scene of the computer HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Song: "Daisy Bell" ( A Bicycle Built for Two ) The Team: Programmed