Strange Things to do with your Digital Computer

[Gordon S. Hlavenka]

Some time ago (months? Maybe a year?!) I mentioned that I had attended
a lecture by this title at the 1982 DECUS Fall Symposium. I recorded
the talk but it's on microcassette and I no longer had a player for that
format.

Well, I now have a player. I dubbed this lecture into MP3 and put it up
at http://tinyurl.com/DECUS-Strange in case anyone wants to check it
out. (The file is stored at "4shared.com" so it's a bit of a pain to
download, but not too bad...) Keep in mind that this was recorded on
what was a relatively inexpensive machine 1n 1982, just sitting on a
table in the middle of the room. So the audio quality is not that great.

At the very end someone tells about their nuclear testing application,
which involved a pdp(something) whose job was to collect nuclear blast
testing data and feed it upstream; it had some number of milliseconds to
do so before the machine was vaporized by the blast itself.

I also have "Voice Response Applications", "Fundamentals of Voice
Response", and "Computer Trends in the 1980s" which might also be
interesting (mostly as entertainment :-) but these have not been dubbed
over yet.

So grab the one I've done, and see if you think the quality is worth
bothering with. If it might be helpful, I can make the lossless (WAV)
file available to someone with expertise at cleaning up audio.

--
Gordon S. Hlavenka O- http://www.crashelex.com
"I might have run 'amok' against society; but I preferred that society
should run 'amok' against me, it being the desperate party." - Thoreau