{"id":1191,"date":"2016-06-20T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2016-06-20T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:15:39","slug":"tech-songs-baked-at-atari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1191\/tech-songs-baked-at-atari","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"intv_color\">[ Tech Songs ]<\/span> Baked at Atari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/techsongs_square_512_with_shadow.png' alt='Benj Edwards Tech Songs Album Cover' width=\"420\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some of you may recall that from 2002-2005, I ran a band\/website called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/899\/request-a-songcom-turns-10\">Request-A-Song.com<\/a>.  Well, since March of this year, I&#8217;ve been publishing music online again as part of a musical project I call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsongs.com\"><em>Tech Songs<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tech Songs<\/em>, for me, is essentially a writing prompt for music &#8212; a concept that inspires me to write songs about a certain topic. In this case, the topic is the past, present, and future of technology.  In some ways, I think of <em>Tech Songs<\/em> as an open-ended album about tech.<\/p>\n<p>Today I am officially announcing the release of &#8220;Baked At Atari,&#8221; a lighthearted, ficticious song (but inspired by true events) about engineers at Atari in the mid-1970s.  Atari fans amongst you will likely pick out several familiar names and references in the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the song on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/benjedwards\/baked-at-atari\">my SoundCloud page<\/a>, or click on the embedded song below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/252193473&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re done listening, I&#8217;d love to hear some suggestions for new tech history song topics &#8212; just leave a comment, and I&#8217;ll see what I can cook up.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to post future <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>-related <em>Tech Songs<\/em> on this site, but you can also follow <em>Benj&#8217;s Tech Songs<\/em> on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/techsongs\">@techsongs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may recall that from 2002-2005, I ran a band\/website called Request-A-Song.com. Well, since March of this year, I&#8217;ve been publishing music online again as part of a musical project I call Tech Songs. Tech Songs, for me, is essentially a writing prompt for music &#8212; a concept that inspires me to write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,9,51,5],"tags":[170,1349,1222,1305,1347,1348,1346],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retrogaming","category-tech-songs","category-vcg-announcements","tag-atari","tag-baked-at-atari","tag-benj-edwards","tag-music","tag-songs","tag-tech-history","tag-tech-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}