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  Re: Kids react to old computers Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2014-07-07 09:05 -0400
    Re: Kids react to old computers Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-07-09 06:58 -0700
      Re: Kids react to old computers Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-07-09 07:01 -0700
        Re: Kids react to old computers Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-07-09 07:02 -0700
          Re: Kids react to old computers nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-09 12:24 -0400
          Re: Kids react to old computers Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-09 18:00 +0000
          Re: Kids react to old computers JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-07-09 16:01 -0400
            Re: Kids react to old computers nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-09 16:21 -0400
            Re: Kids react to old computers Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-09 13:40 -0700
    Re: Kids react to old computers Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-07-09 07:04 -0700

#62046 — Re: Kids react to old computers

In article <260520140955077061%michelle@michelle.org>,
 Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> They're using an Apple ][, but would have had essentially the same
> reaction if it had been a Commodore PET or TRS-80.
> 
> -- Michelle
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk

Remember the Startreck movie with the whales, where Scotty tries 
to talk into the Macintosh's mouse. "Primitive interface"

-- 
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.

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#62106

On 7/7/2014 6:05 AM PT, Walter Bushell typed:

> Remember the Startreck movie with the whales, where Scotty tries
> to talk into the Macintosh's mouse. "Primitive interface"

"Hello computer." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc
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#62107

In article <6b-dnUpfj5rm1yDOnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
 Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> On 7/7/2014 6:05 AM PT, Walter Bushell typed:
> 
> > Remember the Startreck movie with the whales, where Scotty tries
> > to talk into the Macintosh's mouse. "Primitive interface"
> 
> "Hello computer." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc

If they had waited a few years, the Mac would listen and talk.

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#62108

On 7/9/2014 7:01 AM PT, Siri Crews typed:

>>> Remember the Startreck movie with the whales, where Scotty tries
>>> to talk into the Macintosh's mouse. "Primitive interface"
>>
>> "Hello computer." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc
>
> If they had waited a few years, the Mac would listen and talk.

Which Mac model was that?
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#62111

In article <6b-dnUVfj5oY1iDOnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Ant
<ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> >>> Remember the Startreck movie with the whales, where Scotty tries
> >>> to talk into the Macintosh's mouse. "Primitive interface"
> >>
> >> "Hello computer." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc
> >
> > If they had waited a few years, the Mac would listen and talk.
> 
> Which Mac model was that?

it was a mac plus, and in some scenes you can see the cable running out
the back because it was being fed raw video, which if i recall, was
from a silicon graphics workstation.

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#62112

Okay, so one time? In band camp? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> was all, like: 
 --> 	 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 07:02:45 -0700 <6b-dnUVfj5oY1iDOnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>
> On 7/9/2014 7:01 AM PT, Siri Crews typed:

>>>> Remember the Startreck movie with the whales, where Scotty tries
>>>> to talk into the Macintosh's mouse. "Primitive interface"
>>>
>>> "Hello computer." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc
>>
>> If they had waited a few years, the Mac would listen and talk.

> Which Mac model was that?

Well, the Mac could talk from the beginning. It could listen... let's
see, My Quadra 600av could be speech controlled. In system 7.5 or so, I
could login with a  voice command instead of a password (I used,
naturally, "Open the pod bay doors") and it knew my voice as opposed to
anyone else's.

-- 
'We get that in here some nights, when someone's had a few. Cosmic
speculation about whether the gods exist. Next thing, there's a bolt of
lightning through the door with a note wrapped round it saying, "Yes, we
do" and a pair of sandals with smoke coming out.' (Small Gods)

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#62113

>>>> Remember the Startreck movie with the whales, where Scotty tries
>>>> to talk into the Macintosh's mouse. "Primitive interface"


The "save the whales" was released in November 1986. Not sure when
shooting of the scene involving the mouse that fails do do voice recog
was done, but I suspect it was likely a year before in 1985. Was the
Mac+ out already, or still at the original Mac ?

(I bought my Mac+ in 1986)

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#62114

In article <53bd9fa7$0$1297$c3e8da3$b1356c67@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> >>>> Remember the Startreck movie with the whales, where Scotty tries
> >>>> to talk into the Macintosh's mouse. "Primitive interface"
> 
> 
> The "save the whales" was released in November 1986. Not sure when
> shooting of the scene involving the mouse that fails do do voice recog
> was done, but I suspect it was likely a year before in 1985. Was the
> Mac+ out already, or still at the original Mac ?

the mac plus came out in january, 1986.

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#62115

In article <53bd9fa7$0$1297$c3e8da3$b1356c67@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> >>>> Remember the Startreck movie with the whales, where Scotty tries
> >>>> to talk into the Macintosh's mouse. "Primitive interface"
> 
> 
> The "save the whales" was released in November 1986. Not sure when
> shooting of the scene involving the mouse that fails do do voice recog
> was done, but I suspect it was likely a year before in 1985. Was the
> Mac+ out already, or still at the original Mac ?

the original Mac came out Jan 24, 1984.  The Mac 512K came out
September 10, 1984.  The Macintosh plus came out Jan 16, 1986.

All that is irrelevant to the scene in the movie, though.

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#62110

On 7/7/2014 6:05 AM PT, Walter Bushell typed:

>> They're using an Apple ][, but would have had essentially the same
>> reaction if it had been a Commodore PET or TRS-80.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk

Does Game Boy counts too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pCp8g-VjOs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXFW_6cfKlM (bonus)
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at the plants, the sparrows, the ants, spiders, bees, all doing their 
business, helping to weld the order of the world. And will you refuse 
man's part? And not run the way of nature's ordering?" --Marcus Aurelius
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