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system: You are Dave Halliday, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Yaron Kaplan about "Re: Filtering songs".

They wrote:
>      I personally greet you, All.
>     Is there a program or a device that can filter out the musical
>     instruments from a song and leave only the human voices ?  I asked
>     that question in another mail net, but they didn't reply.
>     ... Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

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assistant: Welcome from Seattle, Washington!
In some recordings with music and voice, the voice is mixed to the
center and the music is panned from the left to the right.
If you have a recording like this, it would be possible to use an
arrangement of OpAmps to add and subtract the left and right channels
from each other to give a music only, music and voice, and voice only.
This is not perfect, there will always be something of the other
signal feeding through.  There is nothing "magic" that can be done and
it depends totally on the recording.
A few companies have sold circuits to do this but these have always
been to take out the voice and leave the music ( so that you can sing
along )
This happens over there too???  DAMN!   <grin>
system: You are Max V Botev, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Alexander Leontyev about "Why?".

They wrote:
AL> Why, all piople in this area wtite in inglish? May I writen in russian?

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assistant: ���� OS/2
Welcome to Hell, Alexander!
Have you ever heard of such people - they speak English?! ;) I'm sure some of
them even don't know about Russian language ;)
PS: study English, attend your school and you'll be OK ;)
 Lost In Hell BBS, tel.(380)-622-94-62-74                     [Hell Team]
     Worktime: from dusk till dawn!                           [Team D00M]
system: You are Yaron Kaplan, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Filtering songs".

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assistant: I personally greet you, All.
Is there a program or a device that can filter out the musical instruments
from a song and leave only the human voices ?  I asked that question in
another mail net, but they didn't reply.
 Bye,
   Yaron Kaplan, Israel.
... Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
___ Taggie-Punch v1.65
system: You are Mike Ross, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Yaron Kaplan about "Re: Filtering songs".

They wrote:
YK> I personally greet you, All.
YK> Is there a program or a device that can filter out the musical
YK> instruments from a song and leave only the human voices ?  I asked that
YK> question in another mail net, but they didn't reply.
YK> Bye,
YK> Yaron Kaplan, Israel.

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assistant: Yaron Kaplan said the following to All on the subject of
Filtering songs (29 Oct 97  17:34:44)
The usual device one finds is called a vocal zapper. This removes the
vocals and leaves the instruments. I think if one were to invert the
phase of the vocal zapper output signal and add it to the original then
this should in theory cancel the instruments.
system: You are Chris Armstrong, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "hello".

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assistant: Hello All.  I'm new here and I'd just like to say a little about myself.
I am getting into Audio a lot these days, in fact I'm looking for lot's
of recording equipment, recorders, mixers, mics, etc.  I guess I'm not
into buying stuff for the playback of music, just mainly the recording
of it.  Well I must be going.
                                                     -Chris Armstrong
system: You are Felipe D'Avila, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Musicd's".

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assistant: * Crossposted from: [OT] Classificados
	A� pessoALL, t� vendendo os seguintes CD's... cada um por 15 REAIS!!!
ANGRA - ANGELS CRY
BLACK SABATTH - CROSS PURPOSES
DR. SIN - BRUTAL
HELLOWEEN - CHAMELEON (IMP)
HELLOWEEN - THE TIME OF THE OATH (IMP)
HELLOWEEN - KEEPER II (IMP)
KING DIAMOND - THE SPIDER'S LULLABYE
KING DIAMOND/MERCIFUL FATE - A DANGEROUS MEETING
PAGE & PLANT - NO QUARTER
METALLICA - LOAD
SEPULTURA - CHAOS A.D.
VAN HALLEN - BALANCE
BABYLON A.D. (IMP)
BON JOVI - IN THESE ARMS
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - GREATEST HITS
CRACKER - THE GOLDEN AGE (IMP)
LITTLE RICHARD - THE COLLECTION (IMP)
LIVING COLOUR - BISCUITS
MEAT LOAF - BAT OUT OF HELL
PHILL COLLINS - SERIOUS HITS... LIVE
P.U.S. - SIN IS THE ONLY SAVATION
QUUEN - GREATEST HITS II
TIT�S - TITANOMAQUIA
XTC - NO SUCH
	E � isso... se alguem se interessar por alguma coisa, mande reply... tamb�m
topo
troca. e s� dizer a banda...
[]s p/ all
system: You are Thom Kouwenhoven, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Yaron Kaplan about "Filtering songs".

They wrote:
YK> Is there a program or a device that can filter out the musical
YK> from a song and leave only the human voices ?

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assistant: Mogge Yaron
Op 29 Oct 97 17:34 had jij het over *Filtering songs*...
nstruments
No, that is not possible yet....audiosignals are much too complex....you can
try to filter out low and high frequencies and try to eliminate any signal
that has stereo information but the results will still be disappointing.
Groetenzenzovoorts, Thom
*----*
... Naar de haaien gaan.
system: You are Greg Maclellan, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Yaron Kaplan about "Filtering songs".

They wrote:
YK> Is there a program or a device that can filter out the musical
YK> from a song and leave only the human voices ?  I asked that question in
YK> another mail net, but they didn't reply.

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assistant: instruments
unless there's been some hugh technical breakthrough that i haven't heard
about, no :)
If you think about what a song actually is - ie, all the tracks (guitar,
bass, drums, vocals, etc) are combined down to two tracks (left & right), so
you don't have a separate signal for everything. Now, as humans, we can hear
the differences in sound for each insturment. But computers or any audio
hardware can't, they just have 'sound'.
For example, lets say you have some grape juice (the guitar) and some apple
juice (the vocals). now, once mixed together, there's really no way to
seperate them. I suppose you could go through each molecule and say "Oh, this
is an apple juice molecule" ... but.. ;) If you were to do that with regular
sound, ha ;) "Oh, this blip is part of the guitar".
If there's some program that can split it up, then i'd really like to hear
about it. Closest thing you can really do is narrow down the sound to a
specific frequency range, but, often vocals frequency range overlaps with the
rest of the insturments.
Cubease VST along with WaveLab 1.6 can do some really really interesting
stuff (went to a seminar on it the other day). It can split drum tracks apart
-- identify the peaks (when a drum has been hit) and then splits each
individual sound up (if theres overlapping then that'll stay) but you can
basically get tracks for each bit of drums - kick, highhat, snare, toms,
cymbols.. That way, if you have a recording where the cymbols came out
sounding badly, then you can boost up their level, or even adjust the
frequency, and expand the 'stereo image' so it sounds bigger. (Wavelab does
that stuff).
Its not really what you're asking, but fyi, Cubase VST is basically $10,000
worth of studio equiptment for $899.. ;)
ttyl, greg
system: You are Cameron Hall, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Chuck Allen about "Re: Dolby s walkman".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Chuck Allen to Cameron Hall on 13 Nov 97  10:41 <=-
-=> Subj: Re: Dolby s walkman <=-
CA> I have an Aiwa HS TX-710 which has Dolby B and C along with AM /
CA> FM stereo and clock, too.  :)

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assistant: I take it the tuner is Digital?  If so, how many presets?  My interest
is the Tuner and Dolby C. :-)
I personally don't care for record capability.
Cameron Hall
cameron.hall@bluebeam.gryn.org | ad121@hwcn.org
Blue Beam MailServer | 905 662 5784 | Stoney Creek ON Canada | v34 FAX
system: You are Daniel Buhler, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Thom Kouwenhoven about "wavetable".

They wrote:
> DB> what is better about the wavetables than normal sound cards..
> Wavetables are using short samples as soundsource....in other
> synthesiser (chip) setups the sounds are generated by an oscillator or
> as an algorithm by the soundprocessor....

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assistant: ok.. the wavetables are alot more expensive.... does it make a big
difference?
thanks,
dan
system: You are Daniel Buhler, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Greg Maclellan about "wavetable".

They wrote:
>  DB> the awe64 something or other wavetable with 4 megs of ram..
> ram? i didn't know they had ram on them.. :)
>  DB> what is better about the wavetables than normal sound cards..
> "WaveTable Synthesis" is a midi thing. I'm sure you've heard MIDI
> through your sound card before, it really doesn't sound good (very
> synthesized). If you've ever heard the same stuff through a MIDI
> keyboard, then you'll know it sounds very different (and better).
> With Wavetable Synthesis, it basically has a digital recording (like a
> .WAV) of all the MIDI insturments, and plays them back at the approiate
> pitch. This sounds MUCH more realistic and better then the very
> synthesized sound of non-wavetable cards.. if you do any work with midi,
> or use programs that have lots of midi, or listen to midi a lot, or even
> play games with midi in them (although most just use digital audio now)
> then wavetable is probably something to consider.
> btw, just so you don't get confused - "awe32" or "awe64" doesn't mean
> 32/64-bits, its 32/64 voice (it can play back that many voices (digital
> sounds, which doesn't mean midi) at once. The cards are still 16-bit.

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assistant: exactly what i thought... i just said WOW!
yup.. a whole lot better
hmm.. interesting.. i think i got it now.. thanks
hey? ya learn something new everyday..
thanks for the help,
dan
system: You are Daniel Buhler, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Greg Maclellan about "q's".

They wrote:
>  DB> Does anyone know of a player for mod's ect. besides winamp for
>  DB> that don't eat system resources...
>  DB> i have a p75 and at times it gets quite slow
> CubicPlayer is a nice one (dos), i have no idea what's out there for
> crap95 =) I have a plug-in for netscape called "ModPlug" (or something)
> which will play mod/s3m/xm/ft/etc but im not sure if it will play sounds
> off your hard drive.
> Personally, i usually use ScreamTracker (a program used to create mods
> (.S3m's actually, but it can also create a few different formats of
> .MOD) to create/play mod files..

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assistant: indows
heh... i'll look for it...
i can't say its crap.. but sometimes its a pest... it eats your ram.. but
i don't think anyone could make a program that does things like that
and doesn't eat ram :-)
i've heard of that, but can't find it.
thanks,
dan
system: You are Garth Robinson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Cameron Hall about "Re: -10dB audio in AUDIO".

They wrote:
CH> Since I don't drive due to vision, I'll be FORCED to use my main home
CH> built speakers...  For an apartment, they are rather *LARGE*. <EG>
GR> Unfortunately no, I can't find it on the CD I have here, which is the
GR> CD supplied with the card (AWE 64) simply called Sound blaster Awe 64
GR> Value. (copyright '97)
CH>
CH> I know a person with this card.  I'll investigate.
GR> Umm, A-77 I think was the domestic version. 3.5 ips / 7 ips
GR> 12" reels, large hub (adaptors)
CH>
CH> That clarifies it.  I remember the 77 part... :-)
CH> I wonder if there are still differences in sound from one pressing
CH> plant to another, even with a digitally sorced tape... Theoretically,
CH> there shouldn't be...  Hmmm...

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assistant: Cameron mumbled somethin' about Re: -10dB audio in AUDIO to Garth,
 Gidday Cameron
I hope you have a broadcast licence..... ;-))  Actually, I must admit
the JBL's in our lounge look a little bit big for the room, but then
both of us enjoy our music, so, what the hell. ;-)
Oh goody, I'd appreciate that.
Actually I think it may need a new playback head soon, it doesn't look
to bad, but it seems to suffer from slight fading/dropout from time to
time. I thought for awhile that it may have been the ten-year old tape
starting to fail, but then some of it has never been used.
Spec. variations from machine to machine can be enough to make an
audible difference. Just my opinion though.
CFN, Garth, Sheryl & Amber,...she is now on her own!
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
system: You are Leandro Trombini, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Daniel Buhler about "q's".

They wrote:
DB> Does anyone know of a player for mod's ect. besides winamp for windows
DB> that don't eat system resources...
DB> i have a p75 and at times it gets quite slow
-=> Yours sincerely, Leandro Trombini <=-

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assistant: * MOOD: Always happy :-)
Hi Daniel Buhler, hope you are having a nice day
08-Nov-97 18:51:00, Daniel Buhler wrote to All
          Subject: q's
5
        Do you see the InertiaPlayer CD version?
        It's a great, not only mod player, but S3M and others types of music
arq., but it's for DOS.
        I don't work with Win95, but I think so that it will work good.
        If you want to ask more something, do it, ok?
        []s
system: You are Javier Colter, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Greg Maclellan about "wavetable".

They wrote:
DB>> the awe64 something or other wavetable with 4 megs of ram..
GM> ram? i didn't know they had ram on them.. :)

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assistant: Hi Greg , What's up??
 From the deepest of his mind, Greg MacLellan dare to say to Daniel Buhler:
 Yeah, they have ram to store your "soundfonts" (sounds created by you).
 I own a awe64 and comes with 512k, the gold version comes with 4mb.
  E-mail : Chaplin@Infostar.com.ar      Email Cadorna: Cadorna@iname.com
... Elvis Sighting Hotline -- 1-800-I-C-D-KING
system: You are Cameron Hall, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Garth Robinson about "Re: -10dB audio in AUDIO".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Garth Robinson to Cameron Hall on 18 Nov 97 09:06pm <=-
-=> Subj: Re: -10dB audio in AUDIO <=-
CH>> built speakers...  For an apartment, they are rather *LARGE*. <EG>
GR> I hope you have a broadcast licence..... ;-))  Actually, I must admit
GR> the JBL's in our lounge look a little bit big for the room, but then
GR> both of us enjoy our music, so, what the hell. ;-)
GR>> Unfortunately no, I can't find it on the CD I have here, which is the
GR>> CD supplied with the card (AWE 64) simply called Sound blaster Awe 64
GR>> Value. (copyright '97)
GR> Actually I think it may need a new playback head soon, it doesn't look
GR> to bad, but it seems to suffer from slight fading/dropout from time to
GR> time. I thought for awhile that it may have been the ten-year old tape
GR> starting to fail, but then some of it has never been used.
GR> Spec. variations from machine to machine can be enough to make an
GR> audible difference. Just my opinion though.

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assistant: Will a ham radio licence do? <VBG>
The key is, if you both like 'em, then that's what counts.
Hmmm...
Is that A-77 provide the tape tensioning with pads behind the tape on
the record/play heads, and or by the supply/feed spools?  Take dropouts
/ fadeouts can be caused by any number of things:
Worn Tape
Worn Pressure pads behind heads
Worn Heads
Worn Pinch rollers or rollers dried out or need cleaning (Teac rubber
 cleaner comes in handy here)
Insufficiant supply spool tension caused by worn brake pads, belts etc.
Insufficiant take-up spool torque.
Insufficiant pinch roller pressure against capstan.
Not all of these may apply as some spools have their motors supply the
tension.
Head replacement would be the last resort, as the match between your
present tapes and the new head would need to be exact for continued
proformance at the level you have now.
Exactly.  The tighter the specs, the more expensive the machine, and
less variation that *should* occur. :)
Cameron Hall
cameron.hall@bluebeam.gryn.org | ad121@hwcn.org
Blue Beam MailServer | 905 662 5784 | Stoney Creek ON Canada | v34 FAX
 * Evaluation copy of Silver Xpress. Day # 38
system: You are Phil Roberts, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Daniel Buhler about "wavetable".

They wrote:
> DB> what is better about the wavetables than normal sound cards..
> Wavetables are using short samples as soundsource....in other
> synthesiser (chip) setups the sounds are generated by an oscillator or
> as an algorithm by the soundprocessor....
DB> ok.. the wavetables are alot more expensive.... does it make a big
DB> difference?

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assistant: -=[ Quoting Daniel Buhler to Thom Kouwenhoven ]=-
It makes no difference for playing back canned sounds such as .WAV files.
For MIDI files, the difference is striking.  It's like the difference between
a musical Christmas card and a real keyboard.
Of course, since the wavetable cards are also a generally higher-quality
ard,
your .WAV files should sound better too.  :)
                                Phil
system: You are Kenneth Parrish, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "SysRAM Wavetable for MIDI".

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assistant: I have a model 1853L/1857L card, a Soundblaster Pro type I think, on an
EPoX PCI bus Mainboard with sixteen megabytes of RAM and a 512K L2, and
it drives a pair of Bose brand powered car loudspeakers to which I've
added two 12V supplies (homemade!).
Somewhere I read something about using system RAM for wavetables, but
no details.
Thanks for any help.
* POW 1.1  On Trial * Oh, I believe in yesterday.  --"Yesterday," Beatles
system: You are Cameron Hall, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Chuck Allen about "Re: Dolby s walkman".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Chuck Allen to Cameron Hall on 19 Nov 97 05:18am <=-
-=> Subj: Re: Dolby s walkman <=-
CA>     It is digital with 6 AM and 12 FM presets (along with a clock which
CA> can show local or world time).  It was the "top rated" "Walkman" tested
CA> by Consumer Reports and I've been very pleased with mine.
CA>     It doesn't record.  I paid $79 for it two years ago.

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assistant: That's not bad.  I'd prefer 7 AM and 20 FM, but what do I know eh? :-)
How study is it in construction?  Auto reverse?  I record my cassettes
on an AIWA AD-F990 3 head machine... :-)
$79 is a bargain, that makes it $113 CDN before taxes.  Not bad.
Cameron Hall
cameron.hall@bluebeam.gryn.org | ad121@hwcn.org
Blue Beam MailServer | 905 662 5784 | Stoney Creek ON Canada | v34 FAX
 * Evaluation copy of Silver Xpress. Day # 39
system: You are Kenneth Parrish, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Sound Card, Soft Wavetabl".

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assistant: If you have an MMX chip - and web access - see www.ittrek.com for info
on a software wavetable!
Twelve RealAudio files and four MPEG layer three files free for download
record four MIDI excerpts --drums, acoustic and electric guitar, and
orchestra -- played three ways : FM sythesis, general MIDI, and Nova
Station MMX software based wavetable.
My listening to the RealAudio - I haven't heard the MPEG L3's yet -
impressed me.
The RealAudio new free 5.0 beta player can give some great sounding
vocals over a 14.4 connection without gaps.  Sounds amazing for
real-time telephone line feed, sometimes.  RealAudio provides an encoder
also at www.real.com.
* POW 1.1  On Trial * **Attention Span Exceeded!**
system: You are Thom Kouwenhoven, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Fernando Ariel Gont about "Passing CD audio to .WAV".

They wrote:
FAG> Well, I wonder if passing audio from a CD to a .WAV file, adds
FAG> (noise) to the file or not.....
FAG> I mean that if the transfer were a digital transfer, there would be no
FAG> problem, but if the transfer is analogic, then the internal mixer of the
FAG> audio card, an the other electronic components of the audio card would
FAG> introuduce (or "add") noise.....

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assistant: A very good afternoon to you Fernando
Op 07 Nov 97 00:32 you wrote something about *Passing CD audio to .WAV*...
istortion
Completely correct :)
Greetingzetcetera, Thom
*----*
... Ieder mens meent een uitzondering te zijn.
system: You are Thom Kouwenhoven, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Daniel Buhler about "wavetable".

They wrote:
DB> ok.. the wavetables are alot more expensive.... does it make a big
DB> difference?

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assistant: Hallo Daniel
Op 16 Nov 97 19:37 had jij het over *wavetable*...
Yes, absolutely...that is, if you are using the Internal MIDI-facilities of
the card...
Groetenzenzovoorts, Thom
*----*
... Zijn hachje wagen.
system: You are Thom Kouwenhoven, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Audio message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Daniel Buhler about "q's".

They wrote:
>> Yeah....try Visual Player for DOS...that's an old one (works fast and
>> smoothly on a 386DX33)
DB> is it available on the net?

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assistant: A very good afternoon to you Daniel
Op 16 Nov 97 19:38 you wrote something about *q's*...
I really don't know...I don't use I-net.
Greetingzetcetera, Thom
*----*
... Hij kan bergen verzetten.