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From: breck@aimt.UUCP (Robert Breckinridge Beatie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is MacRecorder what BMUG sold for $20?
Summary: Yep, MacRecorder is what BMUG was selling a couple years ago
Message-ID: <507@aimt.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 06:26:21 GMT
References: <8802162345.AA05719@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: AIM Technology, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <8802162345.AA05719@jade.berkeley.edu>, EE2Y@CRNLVAX5.BITNET writes:
> Robert Dorsett writes:
> >Is this the same MacRecorder that BMUG was selling as a kit two years ago?
> 
> No, to my knowledge, we're talking about a different product.  The MacRecorder
> I reviewed was not available 2 years ago; it was just released in Jan. '88.

Well, at least I think it's likely that the two are related.  MacRecorder is
from Farallon and Farallon is a bunch of organizers of BMUG who decided to
form their own company so they could sell "for profit" what the BMUG
members donated to the "non-profit" BMUG.  Well, I don't think they donated
it *to* BMUG, but BMUG was making the kits available at one time.  And I think
that the original developer was a BMUG member.

Anyway, when I was a BMUG member, they did sell kits for sound digitizers.
They also had software that went with the hardware.  The software was (in my
opinion) truly amazing.  Somebody did a truly remarkable piece of work.  I'm
kind of wondering if the people who did the original work are getting any
monetary benefit from their work.

Now I'm not saying that Farallon hasn't done a lot of work with MacRecorder
(and PhoneNet by the way) to turn it into a real "product".  I suspect that
in fact they have.  Nor am I saying that Farallon doesn't deserve, either
legally or morally, any money they can make off these products.  But it does
seem pretty stupid to pay Farallon when you can get something similar from
BMUG for a lot less.  Of course, it might not be possible to get these kits
from BMUG.  It's been a long time since I was a member.
-- 
Breck Beatie
{uunet,ames!coherent}!aimt!breck
"Sloppy as hell Little Father.  You've embarassed me no end."