I will be submitting the following proposal to Dave Liscom, the local 
DEC salesman, in a few days.  If you have any comments I would be glad
to hear them.


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To:   DEC Corporate Contributions Committee
From: Leland Smith, Professor of Music, Stanford University       4/12/82

      For the past few years I have been developing a computerized method 
for music "typesetting."  My programs, which are running on PDP10 systems 
at Stanford and in Paris at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination 
Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), involve four main segments:

      1. A general purpose drawing program which is used to create
         libraries of the various symbols needed in musical scores.
      2. A music input and real-time graphic editing program.
      3. A page layout program which organizes the data for complete
         works of music for any desired printing format.
      4. A program which creates hard copy on any available device.

      It is common knowledge in musical circles that music publishers are 
becoming unable to pay the costs of fine engraving for their new editions. 
This fact has made it more and more difficult for composers to get their 
works into print.  Many publishers, both in the U.S.A. and abroad, have
requested information regarding my programs.  Especially they have asked 
about what equipment they would need to be able to do this work by 
computer within their own establishments.  I believe it to be likely that 
several firms would be interested in the acquisition of a complete 
hardware-software package for the production of musical scores.  I have 
already done preliminary work on this project, under the sponsorship of 
the French Ministry of Culture, at IRCAM in Paris.  In a limited period
of time I was able to get several parts of my system running on a PDP11/40
at IRCAM.  From this experience I was able to ascertain the practicality 
of running this complete system on a PDP11.

      In order to continue my work toward the (belated) modernization of 
music editing it is essential that I implement my programs on a relatively 
inexpensive computer system that could become widely available.  For this 
reason I am submitting to you a request for a grant of the following items 
produced by DEC:

      PDP11/24 (SM-FXMMA) described on page 40 of the PDP11
           Systems Summary catalog (Jan.-Mar. 1982.)
      VT125 terminal (or GIGI-VK100 and monitor) and cables
      LA34-VA DECwriter IV and cables
      FPF11 floating point hardware
      2 units of MS11-LD expansion memory (256KB each)
      FORTRAN compiler and any available graphics software

      The only item needed for my system which is not listed above is a 
high resolution hard copy device such as a Versatec.  At least one such 
device is currently available to me at Stanford, so this should present
no problems.  If you should like any further elaboration on this proposal
I would be glad to provide it.