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From: erin@erin.EBay.Sun.COM (Rob VanDell SSE)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Audio feedback from GUI's
Keywords: sound windows widgets
Message-ID: <7114@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 18:50:21 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.171211.2716@cs.umn.edu>
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Reply-To: erin@erin.EBay.Sun.COM (Rob VanDell SSE)
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 This may sound rather silly, but I (being an old fart) 
remember the most audible GUI ever invented.


It featured:

 A virtual screen in Y, 80 characters in X.

 A single click-bop newline in combination with a ker-bap-chunk on retrn.

 A bump signified a space, and a click-bap-bump if a character
 was printable.
(If however one forgot the 80chr/line limit, it made a bip-click-bump-bap-bump
 on every character anyway.)

 A form-feed was a BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP...

To signify powered operation, it made a thip-thip-thip (backgrounded with a 60hz hummm)
attributed invariably to poor typing skills.

 There were many widgets, only four buttons, and a slider (for mirror memory activation)
 , a knob control for the virtual X display, and an interesting widget that extened the
functionality of various widgets, we called it widget-tape. It's use was mostly involved
in binding widgets to the base-frame...

When in batch mode, there were various other audible signals as well.

 A nick-hum denoted a successful character read in.

 A thwak-chunck was indicative of successful mirror buffering.

 Cut & paste was not really considered a feature at the time, but more
 a way of life.

What was this, you say??? Teletype-ASR33...

It's to laugh,
RobV.