The Perceptrons

In ancient times, like the 1980’s, Junior Programmer must confront a staggering array of obstacles to complete his senior research project: including hostile data techs, infamous keypunch disasters, the caffeine-addicted Advisor, rations of dorm food, obnoxious guitar solos, hordes of freshmen, devastating cold, even a badly sprained ankle. With the help of a wayward female dummer, an outcast guitar-player and his sorority girlfriend, he triumphantly overcomes these problems to produce “Mainframe Hustle,” the first computer-generated music in History (he thinks). With a capital “H”. This nostalgic, wildly funny riff on computer nerds shows how they, too, overcame their social defects in the era Before Internet.