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From: jeff@stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff L. Bowden)
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Subject: Re: I seen 'em   (Was Re: Next and the competition)
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Date: 29 Dec 88 20:24:09 GMT
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In-reply-to: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU's message of 29 Dec 88 16:15:25 GMT

In article <5830@polya.Stanford.EDU> ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) writes:
>In article <JEFF.88Dec28165044@stormy.atmos.washington.edu> 
<jeff@stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff L. Bowden) writes:
>>I ran the mail program and tried to send myself voice mail.  No luck.
<
>You should note that the NeXT machine doesn't have a built-in microphone;
<did you have an external one hooked up?
>

Oh.  Well, I guess it's a good thing that I was alone in the lab.  I was
definitely under the impression that there was a microphone in the NeXT.  I
vaguely recall some discussion in this group from a while back about the
low quality of said microphone.  Perhaps I was hallucinating.

>If you just want to test sound record/playback, you can also use the
<sfrecord/sfplay utilities from the shell:

Yes, I found these and tried them too with no luck.