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Now does that sound? right word I was that see if I can figure out this magic sequence to get you to wake up.
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See whether I can get screened to stay down see if this works okay
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so this should work now so that's okay progress and I hope I can can win back your favor for my delay in getting the syllabus printed for you. So just to go over quickly, we're meeting here in education room 388. Monday, Wednesday, Friday 930 to 1020. Our last day of meeting is December 5. So there's a few days we missed between August 31 and December 5, but not too many. Here's my email address here's my office location. So anyone clear Everyone clear but where I can be found on campus?
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I mean people have been up to the computer science department. It's see this month one person this month anyone else to Okay. Three. Wow. Okay. So this should it's got a blue. It's highlighted in blue. So it makes you think it's a link but I'm not sure whether it's gonna work
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I made a hyperlink. This is really a URL so I don't know why it's not
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I'll have to check but these are links. So this is the your courses page. And this is my personal page. We'll go through that. And so their final design Wednesday, December 14. Don't take my word for it. Especially about the location
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so in terms of promises so this is a this is the quote that I read in class the other day
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so the promises you will come to know they're doing the design is hard yet worthwhile. You need to start somewhere to jump in and get your hands dirty. To begin with a judgment and spiritual boundary reflection you have glimpse what is exciting empowering and important about interaction design. You'll gain sensitivity to the impact of interaction design on real people. You will see the necessity of a multidisciplinary perspective you will think critically creatively and computationally for designs and design problems using the foundational concepts of this discipline
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and a sound okay so the textbook This is a textbook and I'll show you how this is the fifth edition 2018 If you're how many people are looking at this one or an earlier edition Wow 001 Okay nobody else object.
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I don't know what version. Okay, well okay. Yeah. I think it's, it's a good book. It's got lots of stuff in there. But we'll also use things that are online so I've got a few links. And Nielsen Norman Group stuff is also very good online.
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But it's just a normal group down here so participating writing, designing so talked about formative and then some devaluation on the first day
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remember that okay. So the things you were doing during the semester, our formative evaluations and the final exam is a summative evaluation to see whether we've to assess your learning over the semester. So we must pass the final to pass the class. So this is the list of weights that are in your courses. So we so from the last offering, we we agreed to add a midterm exam. So midterm gets 8% of Mark.
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Here's another blue line, which I made into a hyperlink in word and it doesn't seem to be working. But this is the academic schedule.
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Which is really not a usable document. In fact, let's go look at it right now. Acrobat? Think this video I think it's it's pretty cool as well, but I find it a little off putting the word speeds up when it's doing the flyover
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and all the people hiding in the bushes smoking on campus.
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There is no smoking on campus.
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The trees or the cigarette
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Yeah. Okay. Where's it coming up okay, here's a flyover. Yeah, just speed up to get to the sign. $1 million
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on this increase in tuition it gets half a second.
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Well, it's not it's not just the sign. It's the whole corner and they rebuilt the sidewalk to go from the corner in towards the classroom to the college West. And it still fills up with water. They didn't address that. Issue
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anyway grass here Okay, so this is the right one, I believe 2223 Okay, so what are the important dates this semester? Do you need me to zoom in on that? Better now
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first of August 6
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exam here is ninth the 22nd of December and then there are dates for tuition and fee payment which are repeated and then the class add drop dates, tuition and fee refund dates
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and other important dates and deadlines. So the fact that 95% of this bottom part of the table is empty.
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Maybe indicates space could be better used. Any thoughts about that? Or so I know your name. So that's why I called it a go ahead.
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Maybe they should have a different file for summer, because you have like 10 periods just for summer. And so it's hard to see fall and winter even though they might be more important. So if they just have two different files
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Yeah, that's a possibility to divide up so it's so it's not when you go to look at this
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I'm back in Acrobat. That's why the fact that they're in PDF instead of HTML. Also makes it a little more difficult. Anyway, perfectly knows what this is. This design doesn't quite fit on one page. So the PDF has a second separate line for Good Friday which
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maybe we can update the wiki for good and bad design.
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Yeah, sure. You can do that certainly. If we recorded every incident, incidents of bad design, I think we'd have a very full wiki a never ending one okay. So I want to point out okay, so they're in the links. This is also a link to the PDF
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for the syllabus and their your courses page. And then the assignments here I have an extra column I guess because there's a space in the file that's why
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Okay, so there are some individual assignments so everyone will do this empathize with teachers. So I'm going to give you access to
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your courses teacher and ask you to do something and then think about reflect on your completion of the activity in your courses. So one thing that I realized just now since we've been talking about student numbers so I partway through the list of getting people enrolled, enrolled in that experiment with your courses class as instructors, so I'll have that
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finish after class Okay, not quite halfway through but I've got a few people
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and they're all listed as teachers. So the issue is that student numbers appear. here so I'm going to do a bit of investigating to see whether I can
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can hide them or not. So is that a concern for people? One nod and the other feelings about concern. Yes. Well, not Yeah. So not teaching the course it's it's teaching this experiment with your horses so
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on then it gives you some information about everyone's IP that's now I could make I could make the problem less serious. Eight times. Take the in class groups and give each in class group an essence of your courses that might be better to
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control our agent teacher versus the entire classroom teacher.
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So I could do that.
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We also haven't done it.
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Okay. Thanks so one one question can you reply to announcements, they will try to reply to announcements.
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Okay. So I'll put that in I'll put something in the class discussion to get to solicit some more ideas. We'll try and
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I'll talk with your course. Support. today and see what options there are.
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I thought I thought you'd all enjoy that. Picture Okay, so I have media. I'm not sure why the outline didn't show up. I managed to convert the text into something a little more readable and you can use this information to add to the wiki and I'll try and go through it as well and add a few things.
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It's my plan so there's that and then responses so I think the transcript kind of cut out a little bit earlier seems a little short. But anyway. I'll post what I get from my app and have that further discussions. So the assignments are all here on the page for the semesters offering so let's go to the budget presentation or what kind of formal project
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so the idea with the project is to choose a website. So for
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a 28 students are doing research that could involve user interface component. You can talk to me about doing a project related to your research.
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So if you're designing some software was an interface. You can take that as your project and go through steps with that.
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Otherwise, people who don't fall into that category will make groups and we'll look at last year to pick a website and see where there's some issues some unmet needs and then go through a process of designing and testing a couple alternative interfaces and then making a video to present to capture your results from the process. So testing will be paper and pencil test. We'll talk about this as it comes up you'll have a sketch of an interface and the different screens and you'll test it with other people in class so you'll get together so you can test so you have two interface designs. Created and then you'll test running. Each member of a group will run a test of each of both interfaces with somebody else in class and we'll get a structure to support that. Yes,
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most of the assignments mentioned, but it seems like they were groups of four so they separate them the groups are formed on the first day of class.
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Yeah. So if you have a group of four. Let's see. See how well we do with groups of four. If you have a group of four in mind, you can email me and I'll set that up for the project
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so the project group is distinct from the class discussion groups before
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Yes. So the in class groups are just in class. So and if you don't have preferences for people with whom you'd like to work, then I'll take the information I do get, set those up. And then I'll fill in
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so if you give me three people you might get a fourth person in your group CME okay. I know I like I published this this morning, but it's not here. Okay. So let me go back one of the things I was going to mention was scheduling for the midterm.
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So we have 36 meetings. So midway through the semester, would be this week approximately. So I'll make a choice activity on your courses and verb on it so for now, would you like me to add other choices
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can we add the 14
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Okay, our team's gonna get zero maybe one vote. Vote the following week. 20 for 24th. No one wants to really that's good to know. questions which we'll discuss and above which also solicit your input and design suggestions.
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Be an option like the 31st.
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That's too far. Yeah, it's a little less midterm ish. Okay, so I'll go with these four choices and I'll create it right after class. Okay. So attendance No, I didn't do that okay, now I will attempt to do that messes up the screen for you. Right Thank you so, is that large enough so, thanks for the for the tip I would still prefer it to be a little this is not a thing they want to do every day So, it'd be nice if Moodle or you our courses
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gave me some options right? Right off the bat. So anyway the QR code appears in the source I'll show you. Yeah, so here's the QR code What's up
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so it's base 64. encoded. So it's a binary file. encoded using printable characters ASCII or UTF eight. I suppose maybe I can replace some different styling with that class anyway. So in chapter one they talk about draw bishops marble answering machine. Anyone come across? Remember coming across that story
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give you the message when you put a marble in.
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Yeah, no well. It will pop out a marble when it records a message and then you can put the marble into a player to hear the message.
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I found that the textbook didn't discuss underlying issues like the number of marbles. Marbles. Can you figure out heavier the Marvel Marvel stuff
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well, not only as a text isn't discussed it there's there's very little written about it. So this is a quick video and it's very hard to find the original source material for the textbook mentions anyway Simon in imagens house they are both out.
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What I thought was when when he got to come to the football fan and if you don't bring it up GPM Hello. Your flight is pH 6213 at 1230 Monday 15. Your job number is 46 215 and the pic of a trans employee for Canada mentioned custom mouth particularly 5pm Simon is George can you give us a ring? My tone number is talk to you later. See you Bye.
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Well it's 1020 was good timing Okay, so we'll we'll take some time to discuss things on on Monday and I just wanted to point out so as we talked about on Wednesday, in class your bay if you want to take care of the wiki anyway, thanks for today. Have a great weekend. See you Monday going on y'all this addition to traditional market access today we don't don't the other students have to respond to the meetings now. Yeah, I'm just gonna fix
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Well it's 1020 was good timing Okay, so we'll we'll take some time to discuss things on on Monday and I just wanted to point out so as we talked about on Wednesday, in class your bay if you want to take care of the wiki anyway, thanks for today. Have a great weekend. See you Monday going on y'all this addition to traditional market access today we don't don't the other students have to respond to the meetings now. Yeah, I'm just gonna fix
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What important concept or perspective did you encounter today?
- Marble answering machine is introduced by Durrell Bishop in 1992, when he was a student at the Royal College of Art and he came up with an original answering machine design that is considered as one of the first tangible user interfaces (TUIs). This machine spits out a marble each time an incoming voice message is recorded. But But many claim the answering machine was invented by William Muller in 1935, but it may already have been created in 1931 by William Schergens whose device used phonographic cylinder
- Today we watched a video about Durrell Bishop's Marble Answering Machine which was an old phone that recorded the voicemail and output a marble in the order a voicemail was received. After researching a little about it, I figured that he had designed this in 1992 and it's really amazing how you could separate the marble if the vm was for someone else and you could auto dial using the receptor. I wish they had developed on this idea a little more and can't imagine what it looked like today.
- Durrell bishops marble answering machine
- The professor successfully executed my dev tools lesson and used it to change the password on the QR code page to make it float right and bigger which made me proud. We discussed assignments, assignment groups and midterm dates which made me realize I should figure out when my other midterms are.
- I thought the marble telephone answering machine in the video shown in class today was really interesting. It allows the user to sort their voicemail by relevance and allows reminders for any voice message they need to follow up on. The major downside I see in this system is that since it is using physical marbles, there is a chance some of the marbles could get lost.
- We saw the video of the Marble Answering Machine by Durrell Bishop. This answering Machine is designed with some marbles. It is so simple! The number of marbles that have moved into the pinball-like chute indicates the number of messages. Placing one of these marbles into a dent on the machine causes the recorded message to play. Dropping the same marble into a different dent on the phone dials the caller who left the message.
- Today we learned about durrel bishop answer machine
- The concept of Durrell Bishop's answering machine was one of the most important thing I encountered today as it dealt with the problem of having to listen and read the instructions on the traditional answering machines. Moreover, the concept was demonstrated by means odm
- I was impressed to see a marble answering machine and the most important thing is that it helps user to to keep the voicemail for a future use and sort them as needed depending on the call.
- I learned about a very important concept, that we are surrounded by many instances of bad user interface. We examined the UofR academic schedule, a document I used many times over the years. However, many of the choices of the design did not take the user’s experience in mind. For example, the Fall and Winter semesters (the most used parts of the documents) are squished into the edge of the document, making the users’ experience more difficult. Simple fixes can be implemented to produce a better experience.
- The Marble Answering Machine is the most important thing I saw today. The video showcases a great and simple design for an answering machine. The machine puts the marbles in a queue then the user can take a marble and play its message. The user can discard the marble afterward, or they can save the marble's message for later. The machine is overall very usable and friendly.
- course syllabus and possible midterm date
- The most important thing that I encountered today is about the syllabus, it let me have a better understanding of this course content.
- I encountered the first individual assignment and I feel it will give me more insights on UI designs
- Thank you for fixing the syllabus link. It was really helpful since I am still not able to attend class.
- Dr. Hepting discussed teaching each In-class group's part in this session. Additionally, four days were proposed for the midterm exam, which will be voted on in the UR Course. A discussion followed about the syllabus, assignments, and course events with Dr. Hepting. To help better understand user interface design heuristics, Dr. Hepting showed a video clip at the end of the presentation.
- I think the most important thing is interaction design. A good or bad design can be influence in the usability of things. The design always should inform users interactively. Also the design of things should not be complicated to be frustrated users of finding goals.
- I got to learn about the mark distribution today and about the marble answering machine.
- Today I learned about the syllabus of this course. And also the first individual assignment was discussed today in which we have to make a empathy map and activity, resources which we have to add as teachers in an experimental course.
- Today we saw video of durell bishop marble answering machine. It was the first tangible user interface. The machine spits out a marble each time an incoming voice message is recorded. The issue that I saw is that machine does not differentaite message for different persons. Thus security could be a prime issue with this machine as another person could easily listen to our messages.
- In today's class we discuss about the dates of midterm exam and watch a YouTube video of marbles answering the call. We have seen the video of university also and discuss some stuff.
- today is my fourth class, and the professor discussed about the midterm exam (provided us different choice of dates for the exam), and the course plan,course schedule. I can see how the marks are distributed from this, and I learned how the project will involve creating an interface and running tests , and also how the mark distribution will take place within groups. The Marble Answering Machine by Durrell Bishop, which was projected, was a video explaining the design of the machine. Messages can be heard
- Today we discussed about the academic schedule and took a look at the course outline and hiding student Id numbers. A brief idea about assignments and projects was also given. At last we also saw a video on which a small ball erupts out of the telephone with every missed call and it saves the audio message for the person after he comes home. After listening he bifurcates the balls according to his requirements.
- Today's lesson is mainly about the choices of time for the mid-term exam, as well as class information and assignments
Was there anything today that was difficult to understand?
- Today, for the whole class time, it was difficult for me to understand. First, I did not understand the teaching role of the students. For discussion related to chapter 1, Durrell Bishop’s Answering Machine video has been played. I know the concept behind the machine, but it seemed confusing to me how many marbles could be used to cover the whole day and is there any significance for the color of the marbles or not.
Was there anything today about which you would like to know more?
- I noticed that the marble phone has several potential design problems. What if a person has r/g colourblindness, and can't tell two colours of marble apart? What if they have physical conditions that make picking up and placing the marbles difficult? Would there need to be a reminder system if marbles are missing for people who can't remember if they have one on hold? Would the machine have a very small capacity for messages based on the track for the marbles?
- In today's class we have discuss about the syllabus structure. Professor Hepting open the syllabus and Explain about office location and exams percentage. Midterm is of 8% and final exam is of 20%. He will pull an opinion poll of midterm dates. Next we watch a youtube video of marble durrell bishop and I would like discuss more about this video.
- Converting a PDF graph list to a HTML page possibly with PHP and SQL
- In today’s meeting first we discussed the weightage distribution of the course and then we discussed what can be done by the students if the access similar to professor is given of the UR-Course. Also few dates were given by Dr. Hepting for the midterms and at the last we saw a video called Marble Answering Machine, in which it was shown how marbles stored the voice message and how it was processed. I would like to know more about how it works.
- We saw a video about the marble answering machine today. I think that machine is a good design because it uses everyday objects to convey a message. The user can tell how many messages were left, what kind of messages were they and much more. Therefore I would like to know about the marble answering machine which was discovered by Durrell Bishop.
- Today we started discussing the assignments for the course. I plan to read more about them later and am excited to see what is involved.
- To what extent should the visual appeal of an interface be the focus of user interaction? Today's video with the marble answering machine had it using a series of marbles to order to regulate the messages on the answering machine. Such marbles even though they had a visual appeal presented certain design flaws in comparison to a regular button interface like lack of permission and the marbles are able to be lost. When should visuality be more important than functionality?
- I would like to learn more about the Durrell Bishop Answering Machine. We watched a video on it but did not have time to discuss
- Today's class was just about the discussion in regarding the coarse material and stuff. Dr.Hepting discussed the mark distribution about the assignments, the midterm percentage, and also created a poll for the students to answer on what date we would like the midterm to be conducted. Besides all these in the last 5 minutes the professor showed the video about the Marble Answering Machines. Marble answering machine is a prototype telephone answering machine, which shows message in the form of marbles.
- Improvements were made to the QR code attendance by increasing the font of the password. We watched a short video about the Durrell Bishop marble answering machine. It was a demonstration of how a user interacts with the machine. I'd like to learn more about how the answering machine exactly works.
- I would like to know more about the midterm contents and mark distribution of the exam. The video at the end of the class was difficult for me to understand. Would like an explanation for that as well.
- In lecture video about Durrell Bishops answer machine was vague. So, I want to know more about it, like why it was developed and how it was developed.
- Marble Answering Machine looks interesting, I would like to know more about Marble Answg Machine.
- In todays lecture we discussed about class syllabus, academic schedule and Midterm possible days.But where my eyes stuck was on marble answering machine by Durrell Bishop how each marbles gets out when calls where received also we can listen again with same marble also time notification.I would like too know more about that.
- Dear Prof. Hepting. Today you showed a video called "Marble Answering Machine," and I am curious to see more of these types of novelties. It was an interesting design for a phone. Thanks
- The marble answering machine is something that I never knew. However, I would like to learn more about the context of that with design. If I have assumed correctly, then it is designed in a self-explanatory way, also with the help of everyday objects.
- The most interesting thing I got to know about in todays class is the 'Durrell Bishop Marble Answer Machine'. I am looking forward to know more about similar concepts and how these concepts can affect the way users interact with machines.
- the video that we watched in the class.
- the thing about which I would most like to know more is to learn more about the original answering machine design that Bishop made up and how it is considered as one of the first tangible user interfaces (TUIs). Also, I would like to know more how can Bishop develop the interface of his design. Also, I like to know more how the machine spits out a random marble each time an incoming voice message and how it is beingis recorded.
- Regarding Durrell Bishop's Marble Answering Machine, I'm interested in knowing what the benefits of this design are over having a regular answering machine. I can already tell that it is more costly and less secure than the digital type, so there should be some incentive to switch over to his design.
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