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First to sing
The first computer to 'sing' was an IBM 7094 in 1961, the song chosen being Harry Dacre's "Daisy Bell" from 1892. The tune was programmed by one John L.Kelly and Carol Lockbaum, with the backing track written by Max Matthews in New Jersey's Bell Labs.