From ltanaka@illinois.edu Sat Dec 02 01:29:28 1995
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From: ltanaka@illinois.edu (Lucia Tanaka)
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Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice.

It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'
In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

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Lucia Tanaka
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From jmoreau@utexas.edu Sun Dec 03 11:31:28 1995
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Dec02.012928.3860@illinois.edu>, ltanaka@illinois.edu (Lucia Tanaka) writes:
> There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice.

The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

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Jens Moreau -- University of Texas at Austin
"5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."