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I'm finally getting things sorted out here after my autumn stay in Paris.
Did Judith ever send a price for a copy of the madrigal thesis to the
Stanford Music Library?  If she did it may be that the order got lost in
a massive mix up by the main library's computer (IBM) acquisition system
last fall.  Apparently msny music department orders were lost.  So if you
have heard nothing about an order, please send me the cost info and I will
relay it to the library.
 
Do you think there will be any hope of DEC contributing to the future of
music printing?  Do they have any new graphics systems they would like to
try out on me?  There is increasing pressure on me not to work on the SAIL
system.  As of now they insist on being paid by every authorized user.  I
may get some university support but I am told there is no budget for this
kind of thing at present.  There is a distinct possibility that my students
and myself will have to pay out of our own pockets for continued use of
the system.  What I really need is stand-alone system that could then serve
the whole music department.  There don't seem to be any foundations around
who are interested in funding this kind of thing.
 
In Paris I got most of my system running on a PDP11/40 with VT40 (is that 
the number?) display. I ended up with about 140 overlay subroutines since
I could only use about 48K bytes of memory at any one time.  This involved
many "architectural" problems in my programs but as I learned the mysteries
of RT11 I think I solved them all.  However  for a really efficient program
it would be vastly simpler to work on a newer type system where program
size is not such a problem.  Is DEC soon bringing out a small system that
will have lots of memory and do very good graphics?  I certainly would
appreciate any help I could get.

***************   3 MAR 82
I have been looking at the GIGIs we now have on campus.  I think I might
be able to do some useful work with one of them if you think one would
be available.  Some extra software has already been developed here at
LOTS which could be of use to me.  If a GIGI should come my way I hope
it would include a monitor as that would be a relatively expensive item 
in my budget.  Are there any other "peripherals" for the GIGI?

In re. to the madrigal thesis, I think the easiest thing to do would
be to XEROX it here for the Stanford library.  (We now have a new
Minolta copier which does very good work.)  It would then be entered
into the library as a gift from Judith if that's OK with her.

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(MAIL KOTOK@DEC-MARLBORO @MAR23)
I have been talking to the local DEC salesman, Dave Liscom, about various DEC
systems.  Also Ralph Gorin thinks there is a possibility of getting some
DEC equipment for me as part of a major order being placed quite soon. (I guess
this is another 2060 for the Stanford LOTS system.)
 
I have talked with Liscom about the various PDP11 systems and have come up
with a package that looks like it would work for a music graphics system.
The core of this is the PDP11/24 (SM-FXMMA) described on page 40 of the PDP11
Systems Summary catalog (Jan.-Mar. 1982.)  The extras that would be needed
with this system are a VT125 terminal (or GIGI and monitor), the FORTRAN compiler,
the FPF11 floating point hardware, and, if possible 1 or 2 units of MS11-LD
expansion memory (256KB each.)  There may be some other items that would be
needed but this is all that I know about at the moment other than things like
an interface for a Versatek.  This system seems to be in the $28000+ range.  
Ralph tells me it may be possible to cover about $10000+ from his end if the 
rest could be on some grant from DEC.  I gather Ralph's plans are being finalized
quite soon so I would like to hear your thoughts on this in the next few days.