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От : Bob Worm 2:250/3 09 сен 25 19:53:17
К : Mike Powell 09 сен 25 22:56:01
Тема : I watched a movie the oth
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Re: I watched a movie the oth
By: Mike Powell to BOB WORM on Mon Sep 08 2025 08:43:27
Hi, Mike.
> That is interesting! I wonder what made them settle on 8 vs. some other
> number (like 10). Maybe that is the number of seconds it takes the average
> user to realize something is being said and hit the button?
I just sent my friend a message asking those questions. No doubt
he`ll send me a multi-screener of a reply - he`s a helpful guy and
likes to give precise answers.
I see he`s typing... wait for it...
5 minutes now and still going :
He says:
I think the machine with the DUMP button (I didn`t prompt him on
this!) was seven seconds. I don`t think there was a mandatory length but
there is a practical minimum - enough time for the thing to be said and
for the person in charge of the button to react. Also there are /
were cost constraints cos of all the (static?) memory needed. Erm. Seven
stereo servings at ? 32kHz and ?12 or 14 bits?
So I asked what happens if you dump then someone swears again:
Depends on your procedures I suppose. Often, pressing DUMP would be
followed by a 7 second jingle, works with tape delay. The electronic device
was supposed to "seamlessly" stretch silences and gradually get that 7s
back so if you were relying on that you`d be stuffed.
There was no legal requirement for it to be in circuit :-)
The one time it would have been useful (Rik Mayall, just before I
started) it wasn`t in use.
BobW: So it works pretty much how I remembered but a second less
buffer (maybe, he concedes his brain is a decade older than mine) and I
never knew about the jingle which let it rebuild the buffer immediately.
oh, and if you`re not familiar with Rik Mayall he`s a legend, look him
up!
Apparently there were fancier versions of that machine (which was a
1985 model) which allowed a "half dump" - if you can imagine such a
thing.
BobW
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