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`APPLE, INC.
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`DAVID MICHAEL SCHWARTZ - Vol. 2
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`December 10, 2013
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`CBM2013—00020 (APPLE V. SIGHTSOUND)
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`Petitioner,
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`Case No. C3M20l3—OOO2O
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`Patent No. 5,966,440
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`IGHTSOUN
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`LS 128 THQOUGH 197
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`1 RfiMfiM%fiRfiD, pursuant
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`to Notice,
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`that on
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`Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 8:44 a.m.
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`— 10:52 a.m., at
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`1024 Iron Point Road, Folsom, California, 95630, before
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`me, Debbie Mayer,
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`a Certified Shorthand Reporter for the
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`State of California,
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`there personally appeared:
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`fil SCHWARTZ,
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`whose principal place of business is 49’3 Sir fidwards
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`Court, Fair Oaks, California, 95628, called as a witness
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`by the Patent Owner, who, being by me first duly
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`sworn/a 'irmed, was thereupon examined and testi:
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`hereina_,er set forth.
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`fl BA1fiN1 OWNfiR S GH1SOUNi
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`ECHNOLOG
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`ARWOLD & PO’ ER, L.P
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`BY:
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`DAVID E. MARSi, Ph.
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`Attorney at Law
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`555 12th Street, NW
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`Washington, DC, 20004-1206
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`david_marsh@aporter.oom
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`1 oN«R ABBLfi,
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`ES & GRAY, ELP
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`BY:
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`JAMES R. %A1CHfiLDfiR,
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`fiSQ.
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`LAUREN N. R03 VSOW, ESQ.
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`1900 University Avenue, 6th Floor
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`qibit copies of
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`all the
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`previously marked exhibits?
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`Patent Owner's:
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`Exhibit 5
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`Billboard publication,
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`October 4th, L986.
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`Exhibi
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`Promotion ‘or cable TV.
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`Exhibi
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`Description o: a Compusonics
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`system, and DSP 1000 System
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`Diagram.
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`(Previo
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`(Witness sworn.)
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`Good morning, Mr. Schwartz.
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`You understand the
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`oath is the same as you took yesterday and the same as
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`it would be in a court o:
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`law?
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`A.
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`Correct.
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`Q.
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`Have you discussed your testimony with counsel
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`between when we last met and this morning?
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`A.
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`No.
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`Q.
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`I understand that you're still ill.
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`Is there
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`any reason that you cannot give complete and accurate
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`testimony today?
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`A.
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`No.
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`Q.
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`Okay. Let's move to ?xhibit 1120, 1321, which
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`is a transcript, fixhibit 4147.
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`So I'm going to refer to
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`it as "4147."
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`It's also a transcript o: 4120.
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`(?xhibi'
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`(?xhibi'
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`120?
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`‘20.
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`"'m going to hand to you a copy of
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`1, yeah.
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`R. MARSi: And 4120.
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`A.
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`This is not
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`in my book.
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`BY MR . MARSH:
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`Q.
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`Can you identity Txhibit 4170?
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`Yes.
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`It's —— I
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`tqink it's probably a partial
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`transcrip, o my 1ecture Q, SLan"ord University in 1987.
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`Q.
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`Did you select which parts to include in
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`Txhibit 4‘70?
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`A.
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`I
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`think so. Let me —— what's the —— does it
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`have a 1-; number also,
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`ll—something number?
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`Q.
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`The original submission was a video.
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`Oh, yes, yes.
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`I selected the —— I did the
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`video editing of th l ctur
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`b caus
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`it was so long, and
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`so much o: it was redundant with the printed material
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`that, you know,
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`just picked out some highlights having
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`to do witq telerecording.
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`Q.
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`Does Txhibit 4170 disc1ose the complete
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`CompuSonics system?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`No.
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`It does not.
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`What ‘eatures o‘ the CompuSonics system does
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`Txhibit 4170 provide?
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`MR. %AlCifiLDfiR: Objection to
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`A.
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`What Zea ares does it provide?
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`BY MR . MARSH:
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`Q.
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`A.
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`That's correct?
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`The particular system I demonstrated was a
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`DSP 1000,
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`which,
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`in the case o" this particular unit --
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`ticking o
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`the items in my head —— it doesn't have an
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`external PC or dumb terminal that would enable easy
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`keyboard input.
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`So in this configuration,
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`a complete
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`CompuSonics system would have another display, either
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`the dumb terminal, or
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`%M BC,
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`or a Mac attached to the
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`serial port.
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`Q.
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`Are there any other aspects o:
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`the CompuSonics
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`system that are missing from your description of the
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`CompuSonics system in Exhibit 4120?
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`MR. %AlCHfiLD:R:
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`Objection to
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`form.
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`A.
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`I woald -- to be exhaustive,
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`would have to go
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`word ‘or word,
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`review o" this document,
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`and then compare
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`it to other documents to see what's missing. And that
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`says a feature lis .
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`So it seems to be complete,
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`glancing through it,
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`but
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`can't say definitively
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`without more research.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`When did you give this presentation at Stan:
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`University?
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`A.
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`In 1987,
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`although
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`can't remember.
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`It was
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`during the school year obviously.
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`think it was in the
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`spring, February of
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`'87, something like that.
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`Or late
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`winter.
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`Q.
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`Was this the only time you gave this speci:'
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`presentat
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`ion?
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`MR.
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`%AlCHfiLDfiR2 Objection to form.
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`A.
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`Well,
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`every presentation
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`give is a little bit
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`di ”erent
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`because
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`don't read a script.
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`So
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`I've used
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`these slides,
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`used this material and used this
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`DSP 1000
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`in other presentations,
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`but they're not going to be word
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`for word
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`the same.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`Were you invited by a professor to give this
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`presentat ion?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`Q.
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`Who invited you to give this presentation?
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`Professor
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`Dennis Allison.
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`Could you
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`turn to page 7 o"
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`?Xhibit 4170
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`Okay.
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`On page 7,
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`you s
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`"Futurama City
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`why do we have the
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`AT&T AccuNet
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`from that other slide, and
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`what are we doing with a parallel port
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`besides copying digital data?"
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`What did
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`you mean by Futurama City?
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`A. Well,
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`the systems we envisioned in l983,
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`l984,
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`and started talking about
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`them,
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`publicizing, advertising
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`and demonstrating,
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`three years later in l987, we had
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`made virtually no progress commercially, getting such a
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`system implemented by anybody.
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`So in my own mind,
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`relegated this sort oj
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`-hing to the future.
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`Q.
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`Is it correc- -haL CompuSonics never
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`commercialized the distribution of video using the
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`CompuSonics system?
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`MR. %AlCifiLifiR: Objection to form.
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`A. Well,
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`"
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`t1iq<, +
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`can put a spin on it, when
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`you say "commercialized," YOJ mean sold to a large group
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`0’:
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`SOITIG SO]ft OI- CODSUHIGJCS.
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`But "commercialized" in my
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`mind means just to make money from,
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`to get revenues from
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`a product. And we certainly did get revenues jrom
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`,he
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`CompuSonics video device. We actually licensed that to
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`Eastman Kodak Company and that was a pret
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`:y good deal.
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`‘orget how many hundreds of thousands o‘ dol'ars that
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`generated, but that's money. That's commercialization
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`of a sort.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`Was CompuSonics’
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`revenue related to the
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`CompuSonics systems, as you used the term, "limited to
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`payment
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`for CompuSonics devices"?
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`A.
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`No.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`What other sources of revenue did you have?
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`Our other main source of revenue is licensing
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`our technology and our patents. And we licensed
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`‘airly widely.
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`" can't remember all the names.
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`Siemens
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`in Europe.
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`Sansui
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`in Japan, Nissho Zwai
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`in Japan,
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`Macintosh Audio o‘ "taly.
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`"
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`just can't remember all the
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`foreign companies, but it goes and on.
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`Q.
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`Beyond the sale o:
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`the CompuSonics products and
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`the licensing o: your technology and patents, did
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`CompuSonics have any other sources o: revenue?
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`A.
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`"5 you consider investors a ‘orm o" revenue --
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`don't think technically that's correct, that's
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`capitalization, not revenue —— but we're recapitalized
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`several times.
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`Q.
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`Beyond the sale o: CompuSonics products,
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`the
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`licensing o: your technology and patents, and i; we
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`'qclude investments from investors, did you have any
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`ther source o:
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`revenue —— did CompuSonics have any
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`':her SOUJCCG OI-
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`JCGVGDUG?
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`A.
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`Not that I can think o"
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`"'m sorry, now I do
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`remember one other source.
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`It's been a while. We did
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`contract development work for other corporations in
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`Silicon Valley. We designed a circuit board for audio
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`for Atari computers or Atari video games, and some other
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`signal processing type circuits for other companies
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`whose names " ”orge
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`Q.
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`To the bes, oj your recollection, have you
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`described all o:
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`the sources o: revenue o: CompuSonics
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`during this deposition?
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`A.
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`As best
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`I can remember, sitting here today.
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`Some other things may occur to me later.
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`Q.
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`3 t today, you're likely to remember
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`, sources o: revenue,
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`is tqat correc .
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`R. %AlCHfiLDfiR: Objection ,o jorm.
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`A. Well, no, not —— you would think so because
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`was President o:
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`the company, but
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`I dad a comptroller
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`who was the money guy who really had everything to do
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`with money and transactions that would yield money to my
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`comptroller.
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`So Cyrus Tavakoli,
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`T—A—V—A—K—O—L—Z, was
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`the man who knew all this stu
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`intimately, and I had a
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`1igher—level view.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`What parts o.
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`iord lecture did you
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`choose to exclude?
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`A.
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`Oh, gee, most of it, because we —— I discussed
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`the entire CompuSonics system in a very broad sense,
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`really trying to cover all the highlights and potential
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`for it.
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`So everything from user in,erjace to audio
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`editing, synchronizing with video,
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`the architectare o;
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`the hardware, which is interesting both jor ,he DSP l000
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`and for the DSP 2000, and these are engineering students
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`who were interested in the nuts and bolts.
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`So I really
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`got
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`into the nuts and bolts of what was inside these
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`machines and how we used standard components and some o:
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`our own custom components
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`to build
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`these tqings.
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`discussed some o:
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`the economics o_ the systems.
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`discussed how some o; our customers were using them.
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`John Stautner discussed how digital audio compression
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`works, what we now know as MP3, or Apple Audio for the
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`iPod.
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`don't
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`know that
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`can recall, sitting here,
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`every single topic, but it was a very broad long
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`lecture, and
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`i b li v
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`th
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`ntir
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`vid otap
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`is a matter
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`o: record somewhere.
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`Q.
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`Can i have you turn to page 8 of the
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`lecture.
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`On page 8 o:
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`the partial lecture it
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`"What this shows is that you can
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`digital equipment, our equipment,
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`to
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`our 2002, our big machine,
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`to master
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`records and use, make large databases,
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`either on optical disks or Winchesters,
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`depending on how many o:
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`those you want
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`to
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`spin up."
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`Is a Winchester a removable disc?
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`A.
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`Technically it can be.
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`By strict definition,
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`"Winchester" is simply a reterence to the original
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`five—and—a—quarter—inch hard drive architecture which
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`eventually became both removable and fixed in its
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`incarnations.
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`were referring to "Winchester" on
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`page 8 o"
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`?xhibit
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`4170, were you considering Winchesters
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`removable discs?
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`A.
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`As a possibility,
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`yes.
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`i was considering any
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`rotating memory.
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`Q.
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`On page 8 o"
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`fixhibit 4170, were you considering
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`optical discs as removable memory?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`YES.
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`Why did you consider removable memory?
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`Because at that time, storage was still
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`relativ ly
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`xp nsiv
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`p r m gabyte, and your online
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`storage,
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`which spun up as available on your server
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`is your most costly storage.
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`you can take discs
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`o "1ine and put
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`them on a shel:,
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`or use an automated
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`jukebox
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`jetch cartridges o" discs ‘or you
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`and sLu
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`them into
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`the servers when they're needed, you
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`can keep a treme
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`qdous amount oj data o
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`”1ine, much less
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`expensively,
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`than
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`spinning it a11 up in your server
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`farm.
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`Q.
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`On the same page,
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`page 8
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`o"
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`fixhibit 4170, you
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`state:
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`"Obviously, i:
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`you have a computer, you
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`want
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`to transmit data to other places or
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`buy data.
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`Imagine buying records over
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`telephone lines,
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`or dialing up and buying
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`records from your cable TV station where
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`they're going to be sent down coaxial
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`cable."
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`Did you have a collaboration at CompuSonics with any
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`cable TV station?
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`A.
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`Nothing went beyond first meetings with senior
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`vice presidents at various cable organizations.
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`Q.
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`Is it correct, as of tqe date o_ the Stan.
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`lecture, you mad not carried out any collaboration
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`with —— you had not attached either the —— any o:
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`the
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`DSP machines to a coaxial cable that belonged to a cable
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`company?
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`A.
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`I'm not sure that's entirely correct because,
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`in developing the CompuSonics video machine,
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`the video
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`encoder had a coaxial video connecter, and that's
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`certainly how we got many o: our video signals for
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`developing the system and testing the system. We did
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`record from cable in the CompuSonics video
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`recorder/editor.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`What DSP machine was that?
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`I don't think we ever gave it a DSP
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`designation.
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`John Stautner was the head o_
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`project, and he buil- the jirst prototype ou
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`from a company called Widcom, W—I D—C—O—M. And then he
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`wrote the sottware ‘or the interface and had one o: our
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`hardware engineers design the hardwar
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`they never got —— it never got
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`its own DSP designation as tar as " know. T1at's a
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`better qiestion for John Stautner.
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`Q.
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`Did you only give a DSP designation when a
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`CompuSonics machine was available for sale?
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`As
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`" recall,
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`‘or the most part,
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`that was our
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`"" we had something we could sell, it got named
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`a product, and we printed a specification sheet that we
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`could give to dealers.
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`Q.
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`Is it correct that the absence o:
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`designation would suggest that the produc
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`prototype?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Yes, it was a prototype.
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`Is it correct to suggest that a product
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`lacking
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`DSP designation was still under development?
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`MR. %AlCHfiLD1R: Objec-ion Lo jorm.
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`A.
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`Most likely it would still b
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`or set aside while another machine was being built.
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`Q.
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`the developmental machine with the coaxial
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`connection that you've just Les,ijied to ,he only
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`A.
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`No.
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`I b li v
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`th r
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`w r
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`s v ral or more
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`prototypes o_ ohe video product, potential product,
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`built.
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`I don’: know exactly how many.
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`Q.
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`A
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`Q.
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`A
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`Did CompuSonics ever sell video content?
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`\TO.
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`Did CompuSonics ever sell audio content?
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`Wo —— well, but that one exception I mentioned
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`:erday about Bob Douglas wanting some sound e "ects
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`,ha, we produced for him, and I don't know if he paid us
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`for those or i: one o" our sLa
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`members did it for him
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`a favor.
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`Q.
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`Did CompuSonics dedicate any CompuSonics
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`qeers to writing code for billing software on any o:
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`DSP machines?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`We did not,
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`to the best of my recollection.
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`Is it correct to say that the Electronic Record
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`Store was never a produc
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`,ha, CompuSonics sold?
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`A.
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`It was a produc,
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`,ha, we tried to sell
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`extensively, but we sold equipment that was very capable
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`per orming the functions of the Electronic Music
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`‘ore. Bu: none of the customers as far as " know, any
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`our c
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`tomers, ever implemented such a commercial
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`venture.
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`Q.
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`Did the DSP lOOO have a payment button on the
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`front panel?
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`A.
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`Did not.
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`It had a dedicated button jor
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`telerecording that could have been used to confirm
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`payment, because that button was dedicated just to the
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`receive ‘unction o" digital audio
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`rom vhe AccJNet.
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`Q.
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`Are you aware o: any occasion when that button
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`was used to confirm payment?
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`A.
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`No.
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`Q.
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`Are you aware o: any CompuSonics DSP machines
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`t contained scripts that were capable of using that
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`ton to detect payment?
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`A.
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`No.
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`Q.
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`I'm going to give you an exhibit that wasn't an
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`Apple exhibit.
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`A.
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`Was no‘.
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`Was not an Apple exhibit.
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`Oh, shoot.
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`"
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`think " ‘orgot my reading
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`(Deposition Exhibit 5 marked.)
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`mat is tqe ?xhibit "'ve just given you?
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`Q. %AlC{: DfiR: What's the number o: it?
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`ll: RfiBORl1R:
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`'m sorry, Exhibit 5.
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`A.
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`Tqis exhibit appears to be clipped from the
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`Billboard publication of October 4th, 1986.
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`I'm not
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`sure what page tqis article was originally on.
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`I do
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`remember Steven Dupler because I had an interview by him
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`before, and this is an article about
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`the prototype
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`CompuSonics video machine which here is called the
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`"CompuSonics DVR 1."
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`Q.
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`Does Exhibit 5 describe the CompuSonics system?
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`R. %AlCHfiLDfiR: Objection to form.
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`A.
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`Wo.
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`It's missing some things.
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`BY MR . MARSH:
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`Q.
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`What is Exhibit 5 missing?
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`A. Well, it's missing any discussion o:
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`telerecording function.
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`Q.
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`Is it missing anything else?
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`MR. %AlCi1.DfiR: Objection to form.
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`A.
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`As I've noted in a few o-her replies, it's
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`di
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`”icuiL or me to see what's not here. And in order
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`to do that,
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`I would have to do a word—for—word
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`comparison of this document and many others to crea
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`matrix o" which articles have what
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`ea-ures for wha
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`model machine.
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`So lacking that analysis and
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`spreadsheet,
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`I can't really give you a complete answer.
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`Q.
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`You testified that Exhibit 5 was missing the
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`telerecording capability,
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`is that correct?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`That's correct.
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`s fixhibit 5 also missing reference to a
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`payment step?
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`MR. %AlCHfiLi1 : Objection to form.
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`A. Well, payment is par, o_ the Lelerecording
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`tem.
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`So when you leave out telerecording, you've
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`lej- out any reference to means o: payment for
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`telerecording.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Is payment necessary ‘or telerecording?
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`In our line, as we promoted telerecording
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`systems, it was always part o:
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`the plan, and we
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`emphasized that everybody in the chain o: production,
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`‘rom artist to consumer, would get their appropriate
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`percentage cuts o:
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`the revenue stream so that it would
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`not upset
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`the business model o.
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`the recording industry.
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`Q.
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`Did Compusoqics underta<e telerecording?
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`R. %AlCHfiLDfiR: Objection to form.
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`A. With AT&T,
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`for demonstration purposes, yes.
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`BY MR. MARSi:
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`Q.
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`Was CompuSonics ever paid or
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`telerecording?
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`A. Well, it was paid as part o
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`i,s licensing
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`arrangements with various other companies.
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`That was
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`part of the technology we were licensing for money.
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`Q.
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`Was CompuSonics ever paid for product sent
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`by or recorded using telerecording?
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`A.
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`No.
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`Q.
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`I'm going to give you
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`Exhibit 1113,
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`13 —— and
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`it goes also by the
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`Exhibit 1316
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`.
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`Here's the 1113,
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`Apple Exhibit, and Apple
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`Exhibit 1316.
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`(?x1ibi-
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`‘1’3 previous
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`y marked.)
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`(?x1ibi'
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`’3'6 previous y marked.)
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`MR. %A1C fi.DfiR2
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`What's the alternative,
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`1113
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`R.
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`R.
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`:
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`1316.
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`fl.
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`fiR:
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`lhank you.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`Do you recognize Apple
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`Exhibit 1113 and Apple
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`Exhibit 1316?
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`A.
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`I do,
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`and they're the same.
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`What are they?
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`They're a letter
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`from me to my shareholders in
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`I'd like to draw your attention to the
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`paragraph o:
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`the second column,
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`and it states:
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`"Testing of
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`the telerecording system
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`with CM: Labs began las
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`week.
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`"5 the
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`system continues to mee
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`its specs,
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`the
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`first AT&T Bell Lab -es
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`in New Jersey will
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`qappen late this month."
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`read that correctly?
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`Did I
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`YES.
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`What does
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`sentence describe?
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`MR.
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`%A1Ci1.:1?2
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`Objection to
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`form.
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`A.
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`That sentence describes the status o?
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`telerecording project in July of 1984.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q. What's
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`"CM: Labs"?
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`A.
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`I believe it stands
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`‘or Ca1i‘ornia Microwave
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`Incorporated.
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`They're a Ca1i‘ornia corporation that
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`makes electronic communications equipment.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`What was CompuSonics's work with CM:
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`Labs?
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`CM:
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`was the approved manu‘acturer o‘ AT&T's
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`equipment that terminated the AccuNet at a customer
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`location,
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`so CM:
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`actually manufactured the equipment
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`AT&T,
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`and AT&T's engineers wanted us to work directly
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`with CM:
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`to make sure that our equipment plugged into
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`CM" ' s
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`inter‘ace which was e
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`"ecLive1y vhe inter ace
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`or
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`the AccuNet.
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`Q.
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`Does
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`?Xhibit 1113,
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`1316 describe the whole
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`CompuSonics system?
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`MR.
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`%AiCHfiL:fiR2
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`Ob
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`jection to
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`A.
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`No.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`What
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`‘eatures o‘ the CompuSonics system does
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`fixhibit 1113,
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`316 describe?
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`MR.
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`%A1CHfiLDfiR2
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`Objection to
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`A. Well, it describes the recording functionality,
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`the telerecording functionality under development.
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`That's about all it discusses with regard to the
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`systems,
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`technically.
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`BY MR. MA?Si:
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`Q. With respect to the telerecording functionality
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`under development, were you undertaking experiments to
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`further develop the telerecording features?
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`A. Well, we were still writing software. At this
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`point
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`in time, we're telerecording.
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`Q.
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`In addition to writing software
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`or
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`,he purpose
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`of telerecording, what additional aspects o.
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`,he
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`telerecording process were you working on a
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`,his time?
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`A. Well, Mr. Sohn was working on the DAT:
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`"he
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`,erface box for our side o" the system.
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`think there were prototypes o_ it a,
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`the date of
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`tter, which is what were being tested with CM"
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`t it was continuing to be developed.
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`Q.
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`In your work with AT&T and CMI, what was CM:
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`working on with respect to telerecording?
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`A.
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`They were verifying that our interface met
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`the
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`industry standards so that we wouldn't damage the
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`systems we were connecting to.
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`Q.
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`In your work with AT&T and CMI, what work was
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`AT&T undertaking with respect to telerecording?
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`A.
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`They were working on both their hardware and
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`software protocols that transferred the data on the
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`AccuNet
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`to insure that we wouldn't have any data delays
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`or drop—ou:s longer than we could fix on the fly in our
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`hardware and software.
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`So there was some furcher
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`d v lopm n: r quir d on the AccuNet side.
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`Q.
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`In your testimony yesterday, you discussed an
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`experimental proc dur wh r
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`t l r cording was asserted
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`to have occurred between Chicago and New York;
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`subsequent
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`to that experimental procedure, did you
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`continue to work on either the hardware or software
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`related to telerecording?
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`MR. %A1CHfiLD1R: Objection to form.
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`A.
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`Yes,
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`" be'ieve we continued co put e "ort
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`into
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`the project, both for hardware and software, after that
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`point. We were still in the promotional phase,
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`the
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`concept.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`When did CompuSonics terminate the
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`telerecording program?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`We never terminated it.
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`When did CompuSonics conclude working on the
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`telecommunications program —— telerecording program,
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`sorry?
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`A.
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`"Working" to me means somebody was spending
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`some time in the company, on company time and money, on
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`telerecording, and we continued to talk about
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`telerecording it promoted, even after our engineers had
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`stopped writing software or designing hardware for it.
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`So somebody was still working but not on the technical
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`side.
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`Q.
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`When did CompuSonics stop writing software or
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`designing hardware
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`or
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`,elerecording products?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`I believe sometime in 1986,
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`late 1986.
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`Why did CompuSonics stop writing software or
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`designing hardware for the telerecording products?
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`A.
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`We as a group came to the conclusion that we
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`were beating our heads against the wall and spending
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`money on a technology that could not be commercialized
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`at the time.
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`Q.
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`After CompuSonics stopped writing software or
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`designing hardware for the telerecording products, did
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`AT&T or CM: continue to work on the telerecording
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`project?
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`A.
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`AT&T continued to promote it in their
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`literature and talk abou, it a,
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`,heir various trade show
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`presen,a,ions.
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`I don't {now i_ ,hey continued to do any
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`work on the system with regard to latency or drop—outs.
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`CM: certainly did not do any further work once they
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`Zidated our hardware.
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`Q.
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`At
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`the time CompuSonics stopped writing
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`software or designing hardware, was CompuSonics still
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`working on latency or drop—out
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`issues?
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`MR. %AlCHfiLDfiR: Objection to form.
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`A.
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`Those engineering factors are always something
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`we considered our system in various di
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`"erent places o:
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`the data stream.
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`So I need to be —— hear a very
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`specific question about —— about that,
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`to answer it,
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`specifically.
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`BY MR. MARSH:
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`Q.
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`At any place in the data stream, do you
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`recollect whether, when CompuSonics stopped working on
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`telerecording, Lha
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`la,ency or drop—out
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`issues existed?
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`MR. %AlCHfiLD1R: Objection to form.
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`I'm sorry,
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`I simply don't understand the
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`Q.
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`A.
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`t are "latency" or "drop—out
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`issues"?
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`In the data stream that AccuNet provides,
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`the
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`bytes, or bits, or words, don't always come through at
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`the exact same rate. And a_-er you request a file or
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`request a set of data,
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`i- may not be instantly provided
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`to you. Latency is the time it takes to start providing
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`data after it's requested. Drop—outs are where the data
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`stream simply is missing data for a short period o;
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`time, and that data has to be retransmitted, which uses
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`up some of the bandwidth.
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`Q.
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`Is a data stream that a cable, coaxial ——
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`coaxial cable provides, di"”erenL "rom the data stream
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`that AccuNet provides?
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`A.
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`They're both digital bit streams. Technically
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`they're the same.
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`Each server farm and each network is
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`going to have its own characteristics for speeds,
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`latency, number of drop—outs, error rate. All these
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`factors vary from supplier or network -o ne-wor<.
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`Q.
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`Would you need to optimize any of
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`,he DSP
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`machines with respect to the particular data bit stream
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`that is being used?
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`A.
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`I don't know. Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on
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`the technical
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`factors involved.
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`Q.
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`Did you optimize any DSP machine with respect
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`to any data stream?
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`A.
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`Ever? Certainly. We wrote software, and
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`believe we did not have to modify any hardware to do the
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`interface circuit to the Sony systems. We had co ma-ch
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`Sony specifications for speeds, error rate, and all the
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`rest of the digital bit stream parameters.
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`So we did do
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`tweaking for the Sony connection.
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`I don't think we had
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`to do any tweaking whatsoever for the AccuNet connection
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`because it was so slow. We're talking about bit rates
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`o: 56,000 bits per second which then was considered kind
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`o
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`"ast, but compared to the other bit streams we were
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`working with at the time, it was very, very slow.
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`Q.
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`Do you recollect any other da-a streams that
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`CompuSonics DSP machines were recipients of?
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`A.
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`We nad an SCSI, commonly called SCS"
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`interface
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`on the machines as well, and we did transfer machines
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`data from various devices, machine to machine, digital
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`tape decks or backup decks,
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`to DSPs. Various devices
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`were attached to the SCS" port.
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`?xcuse me.
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`Q.
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`Using the SCS"
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`interface —— did you use the
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`inter ace "or Lelerecording?
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`A.
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`No.
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`Q.
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`Is the transfer machine to machine, digital
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`tape decks or backnp decks to DSPs,
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`telerecording?
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`MR. %AlCHfiLDfiR: Objection to form.
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`A.
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`"f tne data that's being transferred was music,
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`and it was no- in the same room, you know, it was a
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`remote connection,
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`that would be telerecording.
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`Q.
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`Does Apple '
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`“l3 and Apple Exhibit
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`l3l6
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`describe recording o
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`"oppy —— super floppies,
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`in
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`a DSP 1000?
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`MR. %AlCHfiLDfiR: Objection to form.
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`I'm not seeing any reference to super floppies
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`BY MR. MARSi:
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`Q.
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`COJld I bring your attention to the
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`paragraph,
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`right—hand column,
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`last line --
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`A.
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`Oh,
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`there it is.
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`Thank you.
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`MR. MARSH: Could you read back the question,
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`please.
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`(Record read.)
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`MR. %AlCHfiLDfiR: Again, objection to
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`A.
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`Yes, it does.
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`RY MR. MARSH:
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`Does it describe recording to any other memory?
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`R. %AlCHfiLDfiR: Objection to jorm.
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`A.
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`Mo, not directly.
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`BY MR. MA
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`Q.
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`Would a recipient o:
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`the audiophile be able to
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`edit the music he or she had recorded onto the blank
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`super floppy?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`MR. MARSH:
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`"'d 'ike to draw your attention to
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`the last paragraph o‘ App'e ?xhibit 1113 and Apple
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`Exhibit
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`l3l6.
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`The jirst sentence states:
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`"CompuSonics is also on the war path :
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`more financial backing."
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`What did you mean by that?
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`A.
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`The company was undercapitalized,
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`so it needed
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`another round o
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`"unding o"
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`some sort i: it
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`was going to
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`survive.
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`(Pause in the proceedings.)
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`ME. MARSH:
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`I'm going to provide you an exhibit
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`that is not an Apple
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`Exhibit.
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`(Deposition
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`Exhibit
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`6 marked.)
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`lHfi RfiBORlfi?2
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`fixhibit 6.
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`RS{:
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`Do you recognize
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`Exhibit 6?
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`Yes.
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`What is Exhibit 6?
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`It's par, o
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`a promotion or some kind o?
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`Q.
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`document where we're trying to promote the idea,
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`CompuSonics is trying to promote the idea o;
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`telerecording via cable TV.
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`Q.
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`What do you mean —— or what does the document
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`mean when it refers to
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`"subscriber audio selection
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`options"?
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`A. Well,
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`this envisions that anybody who has a
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`cable connection to their house is a subscriber to a
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`cable company's system.
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`That's the nature of
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`what
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`the
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`customers were, at that time, called
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`"subscribers."
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`So
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`it would have to be a subscriber to a specific cable
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`system like Comcast or Western Cable or something.
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`Q.
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`What is meant by the statement "telephone call
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`to touchtone key in order system"?
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`A.
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`An order desk that's automated for a lO—key on
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`the phone as the interface.
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`So it asks you questions
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`and you answer 1, or 7, or 3 with