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From: mikel@cs.dal.ca (Michael P. Lamoureux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: cool About boxes...
Summary: early MacRecorders
Message-ID: <3211@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 9 Mar 89 15:44:40 GMT
References: <714@kinetics.UUCP> <10330139@accuvax.nwu.edu> <21123@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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In article <21123@agate.Berkeley.EDU>, John Henkendorn of BMUG writes
that the early testing of MacRecorder involved a dog (Rex) responding
to his Master's voice (Reese Jones), and this idea was immortalized
in the About box of SoundEdit, where a little dog is depicted, listening
to a Macintosh.
   Actually, the very first testing of the MacRecorder involve me trying
   to convince my girlfriend (now my wife) that the distorted muffled
   static coming from the back of the Mac really was my digitized voice!
   I was until I got a sound that she grudgingly admitted sounded human
   did I sense I was on the right track.  (But she's a linguist and
   has pretty high standards).
     The radio talk show host Larry King also played, unwittingly, a big
     role.  His deep, bassy voice off the radio was a great sound source
     to digitize, especially on early MacRecorder prototypes.

     The artwork, including the dog, was done by the wife of Steve Capps,
     one of the SoundEdit programmers.  Makes you wonder about the
     "significant others" of hackers and the support they give...

     Michael Lamoureux,   mikel@cs.dal.ca