Sixty years ago, the first duet between a musician and a computer (opens in new tab)

In my research for writing the book Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts, I came across extraordinary discoveries and recovered far more material than I could possibly publish in my book without boring readers. The story of the first duet between a computer and a musician, however, deserves a special mention partly because it is an incredible and moving story, and also because it is one of the many forgotten stories from that pioneering era in the history of computers, when t...