My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

Judy Perry katheryn.swynford at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 18:16:27 EDT 2009


Richard wrote:

"I don't mean to belabor the point, but I do think it's helpful to put to
rest any suggestion of willful dishonesty here.  The Win3.1+Win32s
configuration may well explain Raney's claim, and Jacque qualified hers
appropriately with "maybe".

We're all professionals here, just doing our best to realize the
possibilities given what we have to work with.  I don't think anyone's going
out of their way to make this any harder than it is."
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Okay.
Since you asked (and since I brought it up, it does indeed seem only fair),
here is a brief chronology of the development of events as I've been able to
ascertain thus far; corrections are welcomed:

Macintosh introduced:  January 1984


Windows 1.0:  1985


Hypercard including the "play" command (near as I can tell but I don't have
original manuals):  1987?


Windows 2.0 released:  1987


Windows 3.0 released:  1990


abcCode released/used by John Walsh of the of the University of British
Columbia:  1991 (http://abcnotation.org.uk/)

--abcCode is the scripted musical notation software that I believe was first
used on the PC near as I can tell.


HC Player released:  1992 (http://www.pfhyper.com/hcfaq/hcfaq2.html);
apparent end of free HC.


Walsh releases abcCode system on the IRTRAD-L listserve, mid- November 1993
(http://abcnotation.org.uk/)


abcCode and playabc released to general public March 1994 (
http://abcnotation.org.uk/)


I didn't join the HC list until sometime after 1994 I believe, thus any of
my memories of Scott Raney post-date 1994, and thus also post-date abcCode,
and playabc abc playback on windows PC  computers, thus any memories I may
harbor regarding the  issue fully postdate the ability to script musical
notation on the PC by 3 or more years and play back scripted musical
notation on the PC platform by a good year or more (I didn't discover
abcCode and its related technologies until considerably later when I was
assigned to teach my department's multimedia development course (horrors, I
know).


abc2win released:  September 1995


Windows95 released:  1995


Hypercard 2.3 reviewed in MacWorld Magazine:  November 1, 1995 (
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-17477993.html), but PR Newswire reports the
introduction as May 1, 1995 (http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-16884710.html).
This is reportedly the version that introduced soundChannel support.


Does that work?


Judy

http://revined.blogspot.com



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