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From: levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder)
Subject: Produce mailing list.  (Use ne.food?)
Followup-To: ne.food
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:46:08 GMT

I'm doing what I can to limit this to eastern mass, but I know you'll
get it in Frankfurt and Singapore.  Sorry.  Note that followup is to
ne.food. 

There's a lot of interesting produce around Boston, but it's
exasperating to shop for because it comes and goes so fast, and you
can't really call ahead to see if a place has it because there are so
many places and so many of the shopkeepers don't speak english.

So, I thought maybe there would be interest in a local produce
mailing list - just to echo messages like:  "Jan 5 - cardoons and
good arugula available at Butera's in the north end." "Does anyone
know where to get batatas?" or "They have this weird root at Asian
grocery called Beggar Knee, or Pho Hu, does anyone know what you do
with it?" (Note, I just made up everything here, don't answer or go
shopping.)

I'm under the impression that administering an auto-echo mail list is
a pain, and I don't want to get into it.  If you're interested in
participating but don't want to run it, just send me mail (no message
needed, just blank mail).  I won't answer, or tell you if it gets set
up (watch ne.food for follow up), but if there's interest and no one
sets up a mailing list, I may go ahead and suffer the pain.

If the consensus is that "ne.food" is the right place for this sort
of thing, I'll start posting to it and hope others will, too.
From: dme@cs.bu.edu (David Evans)
Newsgroups: ne.food
Subject: Mary Chungs
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:14:57 GMT

Does anyone know when or if she will reopen? I *need* some Suan La Cho Sho!

Thanks.
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: mhessman@world.std.com (Mark D Hessman)
Subject: Re: Chinese food in Brookline
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:48:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.195016.29940@osf.org> ellis@osf.org (Ellis S. Cohen) sez:
>But if you really need to eat in Coolidge Corner,
>head up Harvard towards Brookline Village.  There's
>a restaurant a block and a half up from Beacon on the
>right hand side (forgot its name) that is quite good.

That would be Chef Chow's; see other postings in this thread
for more info. Been there once last year and it was your standard
decent suburban Chinese restaurant.

Now if you go a couple blocks further up Harvard towards Brookline
Village, you come across Orchid Garden, a relatively new (<1 yr) and
IMHO quite good place. It leans a bit towards the "gourmet Chinese" in
atmosphere etc, but the prices are quite good--most dishes are in the
$7-$10 range. The food is a tad Westernized, but it is great; I've
never had a bad experience and have been going there since the
summer. And the service has been uniformly excellent and friendly.

Finally, a more iffy Chinese place in Brookline Village is Bo Shing,
on Washington Street. Hit-and-miss, very suburban, though the
lunch buffet can be decent on occasion.

                                              -- Mark

Newsgroups: ne.food
From: zippy@cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
Subject: Re: House of Blues - mini-review
Organization: Brandeis University
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:17:28 GMT

I've been to the House of Blues for dinner three times.  The food is
very good across a wide range, from satay to baby back ribs to
vegetarian offerings (veggie burgers, pad thai).  Portions are good
sized, and prices are reasonable ($6.50 for the Blues Burger, ~4.50
for appetizers, ~10 for the ribs).

I saw a no-name cover band upstairs for $6, and they were quite good.
(Kat in the Hat, mostly Stevie Ray Vaughn songs).  They played from
10pm until 1:30am.

The bars (upstairs and down) serve a full menu, so even if you can't
get a table, you can still order whatever you want from the menu.

Lines are long all nights of the week.  I waited an hour to get in
on a Wednesday evening (9pm).  A friend waited 1.5hr to get in last
Tuesday.

Unless you're willing to wait an hour, either go early or wait until
the novelty of the club wears off.

Summary: good food, good prices, good music.  Thumbs up.

--Pat
Newsgroups: ne.food
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: (Relatively) new places, any info?
Organization: The World
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:46:48 GMT


From: mer@world.std.com (Mary E Riendeau)
>The bread is made from grain that is ground in a mill on the premises.

And there's this big warning outside about it for some reason...

>Most of the bread (read 99.9%) is whole wheat.  I hear from the woman
>who bakes that bread that the only reason there is ever any white
>bread is due to customer demand.

Unlike why most retail stores carry what they carry, as a personal
statement on the human condition and our relationship to the universe
around us...?

>a garlic cheddar loaf (the best I've had so far with a very
>significant dose of garlic).

I found it "eh" (and we ate the same loaf), it's a bit on the neutrino
side of the bread spectrum, and the cheese bore a strong resemblance
to velveeta, an unnatural bright orange color, at least I hope that
was the cheese.

>The prices are a bit high, just over $3 for a kilo size loaf.

Kilo? That must be cupcake-sized!

>Normally, that's more bread than I could eat before the mold sets in.

But you found me...so no problem, it was gone in 15 minutes.

>In the case of yesterday's garlic/cheddar which I bought about 3pm (it
>was still warm from the oven), only a few crumbs were left around 6pm.

Hey, I didn't come in until almost 4, and then the phone rang, etc.

>While I could have eaten the entire thing, I had to fight off the
>staff members who could smell the garlic on my breath in order to get
>my fair share.

Feh, you fought me off? You're barely the size of one of my legs.

That's how guys like me get so big, winning such fights. Maybe you
fought them off with that garlicked breath...wouldn't work on me tho,
I *like* garlicked breath!

Haven't seen any vampires around here since, I must admit.

I need to try more varieties from them before passing judgement, what
I've seen thus far is a bit on the "hippy-dippy neutrino bread with
all natural sawdust and birdseed for healthy healthy yum yum roughage"
side of things, holds up to herbal tea! (what doesn't?)

Not that I hate that kind of bread, it's just not my favorite, I
wolfed it all down under duress.

I wonder if they have anything that goes well with Skippy Roasted
Honey Super Chunk Peanut Butter (you think I'm kidding, I bought a 5lb
jar of the stuff the other day, now *that's* health food!)

-- 
        -Barry Shein

Software Tool & Die    | bzs@world.std.com          | uunet!world!bzs
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202        | Login: 617-739-WRLD
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: darrylo@hpsrdmo.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Subject: Re: Help with PAS-16, NEC-84, and Adaptec 1522
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:56:55 GMT
Reply-To: darrylo@sr.hp.com
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Center for Primal Scream Therapy
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

[ One more time .... ]

Arnold Chu (chu@pit.bear.com) wrote:

> SCSI devices are designed to be daisy chained on a SINGLE SCSI controller
> within your PC.  Since the PAS-16 seem to have the SCSI controller built in,
> you have to remove the Adaptec controller card and daisy chain the Quantum
> drive to the PAS-16 controller card.

     No, no, no.

     If at all possible, DO NOT CONNECT the Quantum drive to the PAS 16
card.  The PAS 16 SCSI interface is a LOW SPEED interface designed for
CDROMs, etc.; while the throughput of the PAS 16 SCSI interface is most
than enough for CDROMs, etc., it is nowhere near the throughput of SCSI
controllers designed primarily for use with hard disks.  Also, in order
to connect a SCSI hard disk to the PAS 16 interface, you supposedly need
additional drivers from Trantor (read: additional $$$).

     Connecting a SCSI hard disk to the PAS 16 SCSI interface, when you
already have an Adaptec card, will only SLOW DOWN your system.  If this
is your goal, by all means go ahead.

     I'm not sure what the problem is with the Adaptec 1522.  I'm using
the PAS 16 w/CDROM and an Adaptec 1542A w/HD, and everything works fine.
Maybe you need a newer version of the CDROM driver (TSLCDR.SYS?).

     One of these days, I'm going to move the CDROM from the PAS16 to
the 1542A.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.
From: lap@equinox.unr.edu (Laurie Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Public-Domain videodisk software that uses the PC monitor?
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:17:00 GMT
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

Is anyone aware of public-domain videodisk software for MS-DOS that uses
the PC monitor vs. a separate video output device?

We're looking for public domain code so that we can modify it for our
own uses.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
From: dunruh@stein.u.washington.edu (David Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Pioneer Laserdisc Drivers for Windows
Date: 6 Jan 1993 06:08:11 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu
Keywords: Pioneer Laserdisc Windows Drivers

I have access to a number of different Pioneer Laserdisc players and I need
to find the drivers so I can use the players with Visual Basic or Toolbook
for a programming project.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

*****************************************************
* David Unruh              dunruh@u.washington.edu  *
* University of Washington                          *
*****************************************************
 
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: birechtr@sus.edu.eur.nl (Bert Rechter)
Subject: Looking for Covox-scheme
Summary: Looking for scheme to build Covox-card...
Keywords: SoundCards, IBM-PC,Covox
Organization: EUR
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:23:46 GMT

Hi there,

I'm looking for the scheme (and list of components, ofcourse)  to build a  
Covox-soundcard to plug into the parallel port.
Anybody who can supply it or has information about where to get it, please
E-mail to: birechtr@sus.edu.eur.nl
I'll post a summary if there's enought interest...

=== Bert ===

	Bert Rechter               Internet: birechtr@sus.edu.eur.nl
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	    --- Always Look on  the Bright Side of Life ! ---
From: jarnot@kin.lap.upenn.edu (Kevin J. Jarnot)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: .WAV/speaker
Date: 10 Jan 93 21:09:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Language Analysis Center

In article <1993Jan9.184142.29885@ms.uky.edu> schrod@omega.kcr.uky.edu (Mark A. Schneider) writes:
> Does anyone recall a freeware file called speaker.exe which enabled
> Windows to use the pc speaker (no audio card required) to sample
> Window sounds?  The article mentioned the sound is not great, but
> at least it gives you an idea as to what the .WAV sound like.  
> Unfortunately I cannot remember which article I read it in nor
> where the file can be obtained from.

I think I grabbed a copy of SPEAKER.EXE from wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Try
looking in /systems/msdos/win3 (or something like that)...

Kevin




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From: gksmith@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (Glenn Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Satellite dish-- Uses?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 18:06:53 GMT
Organization: University of Texas Computation Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: corwin.cc.utexas.edu

My boss is considering getting a Satellite dish for the Comp Center.  What
I would like are responses concerning possible computer related uses for
the dish.  We may get a receive or send/receive set-up (depends on usage).

Any ideas would be appreciated.
From: estephen@whosnext.cad.gatech.edu (Eric R Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Mac to X to Windows and back again
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:26:47 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: whosnext.cad.gatech.edu

I'm putting together a distributed information system and would like  
to accommodate still pictures, sound, and video.  What are the best  
(least expensive) means to display this type of information with some  
platform independency?

Type		Format		X, Mac, Windows application
Pictures 	gif, jpeg 	xv, ? QT , ?
sound		?		?,?,?
video		mpeg		mpeg_play, QT, ?

Thanks
From: woyansky@flamingo.ece.cmu.edu (George J. Woyansky)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Pro "?"
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:15:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: fs7.C0CzME.D4
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1993Jan4.221827.16732@nosc.mil> shall@obiwan.nosc.mil (Scott R. Hall) writes:
>Curious..... How can I use my sound blaster pro board to record music from  
>a boom box? I would like to be able to record samples of music from the  
>radio, and the CD and tape player. Is a MIDI cable neccesary? I am working  
>with no documentation or books at the time, but am knowledgeable enough to  
>get something going if pointed in the right direction. Thanks in advance.
>
>Scott
>shall@nosc.mil
>
>


The SBPro has 3 jacks on the back of the card:  Line, Mic, and Out, in order
from the top of the card (where you fasten the bracket to the chassis).  Simply
connect the line out of your CD player to this jack.  Then use SBP-MIX (or the
Windows mixer) and adjust the volume of the line input until it's suitable.
Then use VREC to record your sound.  You won't get CD quality because

a) The SBPro only can record 8 bits of data, and CDs use 14 or 16 (can't 
remember, but 14 seems right)
b) The SBPro can only record stereo at 22.05kH, while CD audio is recorded at
44.1kHz.

-George Woyansky
 ECE Dept., Carnegie Mellon University
 Pittsburgh, PA  15213
From: tlilley@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Tripp Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Videospigot for Windows
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:22:23 GMT
Organization: The MultiMedia Lab at Virginia Tech

harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann (Behse)) writes:
> Hi,
> well, why just wait for a non-finished product, when you can get today
> the PC-Hurricane ??

   because it doesn't do what i want it to do.  And because i'm <flame on>
frankly sick and tired of seeing you ram this thing down everyone's throat
every time someone even comes close to mentioning the word 'digitize'...
please, aggressive marketing is one thing, but do so at your *own* expense,
not at the expense of hundreds of state and private institutions across the
world... It's a nice card, but not what I'm looking for... now lay off, will
you?  sheesh... i see this &*^*^&% post all over the vaguely graphics-related
feeds...

> P.S.: We are accepting all other trademarks (tm).

incidentally, what the hell does this mean?

<flame off>

neither Virginia Tech, nor The MultiMedia Lab and its officers know or care
about my previous outburst, and they're certainly not responsible for it.  
nope.  that one came from me :>

- t.
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: Joe_Moulins@mindlink.bc.ca (Joe Moulins)
Subject: Re: Questions re: AUDIO record, edit, playback using PC
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:28:56 GMT

No offense, but rather than e-mail directly to the questioner, please share!
I'd be interested in knowing anything and everything about how best to
record, edit, and mix sound on my P.C.  I'm interested in producing radio
documentaries, from 5 minutes to an hour long.   Must be extremly good
quality, but I don't know if it has to be CD quality (?).
   What are the possibilities?  I produce documentaries, so I'm serious about
this, but I'm a computer neophyte.   What sort of hardware and software might
I need?
--
Joe_Moulins@Mindlink.bc.ca          Vancouver, British Columbia
From: tlilley@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Tripp Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Videospigot for Windows
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:14:20 GMT
Organization: The MultiMedia Lab at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Try MicroWarehouse:

  P.O Box 3014
  1720 Oak Street
  Lakewood, NJ
  08701-3014

  (800) 367-7080

- t.

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: george@delta.ee.ufl.edu (George L)
Subject: Any expert Gravis UltraSound owners out there?
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 09:45:09 GMT

A local shop is having a sale on the Gravis UltraSound. Before I take the 
plunge, I have a few questions.

1) Are the 32 "voices" just synthesizer output, or can you put out 32 channels 
	of sampled audio (mixed into stereo final otuput if necessary)?

2) Can you have simultaneous input and output at the same time (to do "real-
	time" processing of a signal)?

3) What is a good price on the board?

4) Have you had any problems?

5) Do you wish you had bought a different card?

Please email to the address below, as our newsfeed is intermittent.
Thanks,
george@alpha.ee.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: scornd4@solomon.technet.sg (Ong Hian Leong)
Subject: Re: Digital data --> NTSC Commercial boards: info needed.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:40:27 GMT

Have you checked out the people at RGB Spectrum,
950 Marina Village Parkway, Alameda, CA 94501. That's about it
don't have a phone or fax off hand.

They've got a range of products for PC/Mac/UNIX. They can pump in
a broadcast signal into a windowing environment and a graphics signal
into a broadcast signal.  

I am using a PAL into IBM RS6k/560 box.
From: dettmer@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Thomas Dettmer)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Q: ActionMedia Boards
Date: 8 Jan 1993 14:24:05 GMT
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de


About ActionMedia Boards (Intel/DVI): Can someone tell me what software ,
libraries and documentation is usually delivered together with the boards?
What is optionally available? 

The context: 
We bought a so called complete MM solution from a company in germany (abeco).
Beside an authoring tool (CAME) and other things it includes the ActionMedia
Boards (DVI). I'm relativly sure that I saw discussion and comments on
documentation and software in context with ActionMedia Boards, that we did
not get. 
Is someone else out there working with the abeco solution? I'd like to get
in contact.
If there is more interest, I'm willing to give more informations, but I'm
not a specialist and not counting fps's... and as far as I know, abeco is
only selling to dealers (but I'm not sure).

thanks in advance for any hint and help.
tom
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dettmer@ls1.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
phone: +49-231 755 6464, FAX: +49-231 755 6555
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Post Box 50 05 00, W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: gord@jericho.uucp (Gord Wait)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Pro "?"
Organization: S-MOS Systems, Inc. (Vancouver Design Center)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:29:33 GMT

In article <C0IAqD.8ot@sdf.lonestar.org> seanp@sdf.lonestar.org (Sean Peoples) writes:

>BTW, CD's use 12-bit digital sound, and 4-bit error-correction...
>
>Later...
>
>-- 
> ___       Sean Peoples <seanp@sdf.lonestar.org>, FidoNet : 1:124/7026 
>(__  ___   The .\ssylum BBS: 214-291-8771 Cedar Hill, Tx USA!!!
>___) |__) 
>     |     WANTED: UUCICO.EXE file from Waffle BBS package for MS-DOS w/ Docs. 

Wrong. CD's store 16 bit sound, for each channel (left and right). Don't know how many
bits for error correcting. 
-- 
Gord Wait 	SMOS Systems Vancouver Design Centre
uunet!jericho!gord
gord%jericho@uunet.uu.net

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: BH4781@uacsc2.albany.edu
Subject: Re: Video grabber + video camera = scanner ?
Organization: University at Albany, Albany NY 12222
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:21:30 EST

In article <1993Jan12.023100.14838@berlioz.nsc.com>
bui@berlioz.nsc.com (Cuong Bui) writes:
 
>I have a video camera, if I purchase the Video Blaster (?) board,
>which can capture the video image, is it as good an image as a scanner?
>At least, it's a cheap and easy, not having to develop or blowup
>a picture for scanning, and huge source of data from video tape, TV ...
>Any pointer is appreciated.
>
 
I have a Computer Eyes/Pro board that I connected to a VHS camcorder.
It works pretty well as a STILL image digitizer, but taking pictures of
anything moving more than a rock will produce a blurred image. But
I did manage to get a few nice images of my keyboard (what I wanted),
only having to play with the lighting and focus on the camera.
 
Hope this helps.
From: 00gwmichelin@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Hello
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:54:34 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

Just testing.  Will someone please respond so I know I am not alone

Thanks
From: chu@pit.bear.com (Arnold Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Help with PAS-16, NEC-84, and Adaptec 1522
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:01:59 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

SCSI devices are designed to be daisy chained on a SINGLE SCSI controller
within your PC.  Since the PAS-16 seem to have the SCSI controller built in,
you have to remove the Adaptec controller card and daisy chain the Quantum
drive to the PAS-16 controller card.  If the NEC-84 has a second SCSI socket,
you should be able to plug the drive cable from the Quantum drive to the CDROM.
If there is no extra SCSI connector on either the Quantum or NEC-84, you need
special SCSI cable with multiple connectors.

What else can go wrong???

1. SCSI devices requires an unique device id.  Your default setting on the NEC
   or Quantum may need to be reset.  Start with the Quantum as device 0 if in
   doubt.  You'll need to consult your manuals to locate the switches/jumpers.
2. SCSI - I implementations are not so standard across manufacturers.  There
   is still a remote possibility that the Quantum drive may not work with the
   PAS-16 SCSI controller.

If the PAS-16 controller seems to the the problem, see if you can disable it
and run both the Quantum and NEC-84 off the Adaptec.

Good luck.
From: slambert@willamette.edu (Sean Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Premiere sound question
Date: 7 Jan 93 04:10:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: willamet.C0Gu9B.IEK
Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR

I was wondering if there is a way to import just an audio track into
Premiere...if so...does it have to be in a certain fortmat??  


thanks a lot


sean
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia