From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 07:10:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA03058 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 07:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA03043 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 07:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id GAA29809; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:48:01 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704171348.GAA29809@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: floppy disks To: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (Jim Durham) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:48:00 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <335593F3.167EB0E7@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> from "Jim Durham" at Apr 16, 97 11:07:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > (My old CP/M box was an Altair with Persci 8 inchers and a Tarbell > > > controller.) > > > > Did you decode the Tarbell format message in Isao Tomita's rendition > > of Musorgsky's "Pictures At An Exhibition" from the piece "Dance Of > > Chicks In their Shells"? > > > > Just curious... > > Hmmmm... I like that work, but I'm more partial to the "Great Gates > at Kiev". (Gee...is Bill from Russia?). (I know, it's "Gate", but I > needed some "poetic license".) My favorite thing about that particular piece is that it was used as background music for a bank commercial, and they spent the whole voiceover talking about how "American" the bank was, and how, if you were really a "real American", you'd probably rush right out and deposit all your money there. All backed by the music of a Russian composer... I nearly fell off my chair laughing the first time I saw it, and I had to explain to the other people in Arby's why it was funny so that they didn't think I was a loon. > Anyhow, no..I have the Herbert Von Karajan/Philharmonia version, so no.. > should I dig it up? Well, it's nifty in its own right, if you like synthesizer music; I don't know how well the tarbell data would come over off the CD, actually; I had some problems with the direct-disk recording (vinyl top end recording technology) I have back when I had the equipment to do tarbell... so with it mangled onto a CD, there's probably no chance. Basically, I asked because I didn't get the whole thing, only pieces. 8-(. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer also do a good version (but no tarbell message). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.