The mother of all iPods?

IBM made the first iPod?

• Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
• Born Free

Actually, that's a 1964 IBM 1403 printer playing these tunes!

Engineers with lots of extra time on their hands figured out which lines of characters to print to make sounds at a various pitches corresponding to musical notes. They translated that information to a deck of punched cards and fed them into the printer and bingo, there you go -- music!

From the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA