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...Robert Ingebretsen, vice president of a digital recording company called Soundstream, Inc., compares conventional record listening to "looking out a dirty window: you can see, but not perfectly. Listening to a digital recording is like looking out the same window, clean." Soundstream's enthusiastic president, Thomas G. Stockham Jr., who has been working on the process since 1958 and may be called its U.S. pioneer, puts it simply: "Digital recording to sound as writing is to language. A thousand years from now, digital recordings could still exist in their original quality...
Another of the 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...
...Richard H. Bolt, chairman of Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc., sound experts; Franklin S. Cooper, president of Haskins Laboratories; James L. Flanagan, head of acoustics research at Bell Telephone Laboratories; John G. McKnight, audio and magnetic recording consultant; Thomas G. Stockham Jr., computer science professor at the University of Utah; and Mark R. Weiss, vice president for acoustics research of Federal Scientific Corp...
...Garland, who is currently under indictment in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud; Councilman Cornelius D. Scully, whose election is challenged by the Mayor; Councilman Walter R. Demmler and Councilman Charles P. Anderson. Their purpose: to elect a president of Carnegie Tech to succeed aging, ailing Dr. Thomas Stockham Baker...