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Article #39069Re: cool About boxes...
From: Michael P. Lamoureux
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1989 15:44
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1989 15:44
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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
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