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[Harold Hallikainen]

>         Doug Jones
>         jones at cs.uiowa.edu
>
> (PS:  Here's a photo of one of our workstations at Bell Labs
> -- http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~dwjones/BellLabsLAN/DDP516workstation.jpg
> R. W. Schafer, J. L. Flanagan, and L. R. Rabiner are shown with the
> workstation in 2D516, Bell Labs Murray Hill, as it was in 1973.  Schafer
> is using the mouse on an aluminum panel he's got balanced on his lap while
> Larry Rabiner sits in front of the Model 33 with his elbow on the
> paper-tape punch.  They're listening to computer-generated speech on the
> headphones.  The photo is a Bell Labs publicity photo.)


Interesting! When I was in high school (55 years ago), a friend had a
speech synthesis circuit. I barely remember it, but I think it was a
circuit board with a bunch of transistors and switches. It could make
various speech sounds. I thought at the time that Bell Labs was interested
in it as a way to convert speech to a set of instructions down the wire,
then back to speech at the other end. The instructions would take less
bandwidth than the original speech. I think a whole lot of Bell Labs work
was trying to cram more down an existing circuit.

And, this is the earliest mention of a mouse that I've seen. I had heard
of it at the Xerox PARC, but I guess this was around the same time.

Harold
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