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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Kate Bush and gender id (Really Fairlight CMI)
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 13:19:45 EDT
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> My impression of alot of her stuff is that it sounds as if she just found
> this great new toy, the Fairlight CMI, and she's just bound and determined
> to make every kind of strange noise she possibly can with it.

This reminds me of a question that has been bothering me for a long time.
Back when the Apple* Macintosh** personal computer first came out, there
was a demo disk distributed to various dealers, etc., of a voice synthesis
program [it's the one that had different names over the early part of the
product life, names like MacinTalk, MacTalk, etc., and I don't know the
name it has now or had then].  Included with it was a little demo that
recited the well-known "In the olden days, before 1984, not many people
used computers, and for a very good reason: not many knew how, and..."
story.

Well, if you looked in the text file that contained the text of this
message, there was a delimiting string at the end of the message, something
like "#####", and then some more phonetic text.  If you took out the
"####", after it got through telling you about Apple, it would start giving
you a little talk about how the Fairlight CMI*** worked!  Why is this?  Was
that voice synthesizer made by the same people who make the CMI?  Or is
there a version of it that runs on the CMI? or what?

*  Apple is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
** Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc.
***Fairlight and CMI are trademarks of Fairlight Instruments [I think]
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