Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!erci18 From: erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SonicFinder Wanted Message-ID: <510@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 28 Sep 89 09:54:07 GMT References: <16473@brunix.UUCP> <32916@srcsip.UUCP> Reply-To: erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) Organization: Edinburgh University Merry Pranksters Lines: 14 >In article <16473@brunix.UUCP> sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers) writes: >An article by William W. Gaver in HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (1989, volume >4, pp. 67-94) describes an auditory finder for the Mac called the >SonicFinder. According to the article, this finder received limited >distribution within Apple, but Gaver is no longer there. I would very much >like to get a copy of this finder, if it's possible. The guy who is currently writing SonicFinder now works at Xerox Europarc in Cambridge (England). Unfortunately sonic finder is proprietry and you can't get a copy (I've tried :-(). I don't knowe if they have any release plans in the pipeline but when I next talk to my 'mole' in the company I'll try and find out. Tony "Furthur!"