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...experts, Thomas G. Stockham Jr., a computer-science professor at the University of Utah, then cheerily demonstrated that once the record button is depressed, it "locks itself down." It can be released only by pushing any of four other buttons: "start," "fast forward," "rewind" or "stop." If a foot pedal is used to control the recorder, the lifting of a foot will cause the tape to stop moving, but will not result in the erase head's leaving the telltale four-line "off' signature...
They were so cautious that when Sirica asked Stockham if the signature marks on the tape could only be produced by pushing tape recorder buttons by hand, he replied: "With a hand. Or with a stick." "But not a foot pedal?" Sirica asked. "Not with a foot pedal," Stockham declared. When the technicians completed their presentation, St. Clair grumped, "I think I'm going to talk to my own experts." Protested Bolt: "I thought we were your experts...
Sims testified that on Oct. 1 he was asked by Bull, the President's appointments secretary, to secure a recorder "with a foot-pedal capability." Miss Woods had begun working on the June 20 tape at Camp David on Sept. 29, using a Sony 800B machine, but had complained that transcribing was difficult without a foot control. Sims testified that the Secret Service maintained a pool of four Uher 5000 recorders, but none were "in-house" when Bull asked for one. So Simms immediately purchased one for $528.80 from Fidelity Sound Co. in downtown Washington at about 12:30 that...
...slight indentation in the sole of your shoe, indicating experimentation with a type of pedal used only to operate a tape recorder...
...Shortly thereafter, it is installed -with foot pedal-in the office of a lady secretary...