Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!rentsch From: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: The "progress" of audio Message-ID: <206@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 18:30:59 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.206 Posted: Thu Aug 22 18:30:59 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 06:17:29 EDT References: <166@unc.unc.UUCP> <1310@hound.UUCP> Reply-To: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 24 Summary: In article <1310@hound.UUCP> rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) writes: >[] >What school was that? >Your story reminds me of the seminar by Dr. Rolf Von Zeitel I arranged >(with some help) for the joint EE/Physics faculties at the University >of Minnesota some years ago. Title was something like My memories of >the Manhattan Project. We had an overflow crowd at the Student Union. >Seems it turned out that Dr. Von Zeitel, thick cherman accent and all, >was a paint salesman from south St. Paul. >I wonder whatever became of good old Rolf. >Anyhow, ever listened to a good mono lp? Terrific S/N right? Wow! >What bass!! >Was your lecturer really a paint salesman? (rhetorical question) > >-- > >"It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg The school was Caltech. The seminar was done as part of a series for Electrical Engineering types. The lecturer was James Boyk, a musician by profession. (He has some recordings available in which he plays piano.)