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Musical Disabled Keyboard
This is not a pun, no really it's not.
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I noticed that when a keyboard gets highly disabled, the computer has a habit of making an unusual monotone beep. With a few adjsutments to the computer system (by seperating the internal 'beep' from the computer system itself), when the keyboards is disabled, each key will play a different note/chord, allowing you to forget that you've just broken your computer and enjoy some Vivaldi instead.
[ sctld ], Mar 03 2002

One approach http://www.halfbake..._20piano_20keyboard
As per PeterSealy's anno: An idea for making a piano keyboard work as a computer keyboard. [bristolz, Mar 03 2002]


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       it won't work, because if the keyboard buffer is overflowing <which is what means 'beep' in that situation>, there isn't enough of the computer's mind left to power a program.   

       If you just want your keyboard to play music, there are any number of programs that will do this, one came with my SoundBlaster 16, lo these many years ago.
StarChaser, Mar 03 2002
   

       Or design a keyboard with it's own on-board oscillator/synth and amp/speaker. The value of having such a thing is questionable, though.
bristolz, Mar 03 2002
   


 
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