On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Jim Arnott wrote: More than ten years ago, I was doing a sound job on a movie at one of the first (mostly) digital post-production facilities in Southern California. The mixing console was a new million-dollar Harrison, there were three Synclaviers in-house and networked, and Mac computers were everywhere. In a recording room like this, the mixing console (for T. Duell: audio blending desk... ;} ) is somewhat more than halfway back from the screen and speakers, and the clients sit at another big desk, usually a foot or so above and a few feet behind where the mixing staff are working. The front of this big desk (which is directly behind the mixers) contains the patch bays and outboard gear. Thus everyone can see the screen and hear the unobstructed sound. On this particular desk, for the benefit of the clients (to keep them occupied and out of the mixer's hair) was a Mac SE running (among other amusements) a copy of MacPlaymate, and early soft-core 'porn' game. One of it's attributes was, that as long as the program was launched, it would grab the speaker and purr lascivious nothings at random intervals. We came to the end of a rather complicated mixing sequence, stopped, and the Lead Mixer turned around to the clients and asked "Well, how was that?" Before anyone could respond, the SE, in a breathy bedroom voice, goes "...oooOOOhhhh eeeYYeessss!! YESSS!!!!" We had to break early for lunch, because, after the first ten minutes of hysteria died down, folks kept answering "Oooh, Yesss.." to every question, and then another five minutes of helpless laughter would ensue. from the 'Macs can do more than just talk' file... Cheers John