Tech, it's too late tonight to address every point. But, merely from a technological standpoint I wanted to address #5.
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| (5) I know that they had the original computers such as you mentioned. My anology was about the computers such as we use to go on-line. Sometimes discos and such were illuminated with lights dancing on the walls produced by projectors, but they also made them to go inside a TV set. We had one make to made special inside something else for our wall, it was a computer and you plug into the record player and each different sound produced causes the screen to light up with a different color of light. The high tones would be brighter lights like yellows, and the bass sounds would be dark colors. We had a strobe light also connected for very high pitched sounds. And that home use item simulated the lights we think about behind a Jefferson Airplane or Greatful Dead concert. |
What you described was called a "color organ" and had ZERO connection with any computer. All it consisted of was a cheap electronic circuit and some lights. The signal came from the sound system and the circuit would fire different colored lights in relation to the strengt of different frequencies. Radio Shack used to sell one for home use (I even had one myself) that was about the size of a large stereo speaker with a plastic screen. You plugged in your stereo's output and the circuit would fire red christmas lights when bass tones were played, yellow for midrange tones and blue for high notes. Not computerized in any way.
I strongly suggest a really great web site called
How Things Work It shows how just about anything you can think of works. Honestly, you could use a little brushing up on things technical, my friend. :)