Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 27, 1988

Transcript:

Steve: Ready? Jimmy: Ready! "Enter: hit song." Steve: Got the phone modem hooked up, Jim? And the interface cable? Jimmy: Yur send yer on, I'll talk to you in a minute. Woman: Who's that, Jimmy? Jimmy: It' Steve. He's phoning in the tracks for a new song he wrote this morning. Woman: He's phoning it in? Jimmy: Into my computer, the tune is broken down into digital information. I can review and edit it, note by note, instrument by instrument, using a sequence editor to put it in perfect time! Here it comes...oh, wow...nice...nice...oh, wow, he's cookin'! Steve: Like it? Jimmy: Very catchy! I can't get it out of my head!