Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!mintaka!dcw From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: APPLE (tm) Message-ID: <1990Nov7.213111.28305@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 7 Nov 90 21:31:11 GMT References: <5460@crash.cts.com> <8551@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <90309.213454ART100@psuvm.psu.edu> <14351@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group Lines: 22 In article jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) writes: >Doug Gwyn@smoke.brl.mil writes: > >> Note that Apple (Computer) has issued Compact Discs. Even though >> intended for computer use, not audio, this is clearly starting to infringe > >I don't think so. What Apple Computer, Inc. has released are CD-ROMs, >which are considered a standard medium for storing computer data. >Because these are not musical CDs, and will not produce music when used On the other hand, several of the previous Developer CDs (I'm not sure about the latest one as I haven't checked) did contain several music tracks, produced, I believe, internally at Apple. "Track 1" is the CD ROM, and does not play (except for a burst of noise that lasts a few seconds) while the remaining tracks (about 7 or 8) are all synthetic music (some of it pretty good). -- Dave Whitney Computer Science MIT 1990 | I wrote Z-Link and BinSCII. Send me bug dcw@lcs.mit.edu | reports. I need a job. Send me an offer. Every now and then one makes a mistake. Mine was probably this post.