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...after he turned left and had to forget the pitch ("I'd better not pitch the ball or they'd fight over it," he figured), he just turned the other way, ran around right end, escaped a near tackle by safety Joe Harvey, found rough going on the right side of the field, turned back the other way, outran three more Tigers and, while he was at it, scored a touchdown...
...Will Harvey, 16 and an honors student from Foster City, Calif., was singing in his high school choir one day when the idea came to him. His family did not own a piano, and he had taken no music lessons, but he thought of a simple way for people like him to learn music with a computer. Drawing on his considerable talents as a programmer, Harvey sat down with his Apple and an introductory music text and came up with a program that is making even professional musicians stand up and shout "Bravo!" Not only did Harvey master the mechanics...
...Harvey's program is not the first to take advantage of the microcomputer's power to create and store synthesized sound. There are at least a dozen similar products on the market, from Apple's $45 Musicomp, to alphaSyntauri's $1,995 Computer Music System, which includes full keyboard, 3,000-note memory and 16-track recording system. But no other low-cost music program makes it so easy to do so much. The key to the software's success is what the industry calls its "user interface." It avoids computerese and makes notation...
...took me about three seconds to decide I wanted it," says W.M. ("Trip") Hawkins, president of Electronic Arts, the software publishing house handling Harvey's program. Hawkins calls MCS an example of software that is "simple, hot and deep," by which he means it is easy to use, appeals to the senses, and will hold the interest of the user, no matter how sophisticated he becomes. Jeanie Chandler, a professional flutist and music teacher from Marin County in Northern California, who was hired by Electronic Arts as a consultant on the project, says she is using MCS to play...
Even with these caveats, experts who have seen Harvey's program think it may prove to be one of those rare pieces of software that open up the computer market to a new class of consumer. "It's both educational and entertaining," says Michele Preston, an analyst at L.E Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin in New York City. In fact, the program seems to be as versatile and competent as its creator. Harvey, a blond-haired Eagle Scout, not only tinkers with computers but holds down a 4.0 average at Uplands High School, played halfback on city football teams, twice...