ABOUT THE *.trs FILES:

These transcriptions have been made with "Transcriber", which can be
found here: <URL:http://www.etca.fr/CTA/gip/Projets/Transcriber/>.

I have tried to make the transcription as "reversible" as possible;
that is, I have tried to maintain a one-to-one mapping between what is
uttered and what is in the text, so as to lose as little information
as possible.  Everything is preserved.  Therefore I have adopted some
conventions:

* Every number is spelled out exactly as spoken.  This transcription
  says "nineteen-eighty-five", when "1985" would be more natural for
  written text.

* Only things pronounced character-by-character is spelled with UPPER
  CASE.  So PDP is spelled "PDP", but TECO is spelled "Teco", since it
  is pronounced as "Teekoh", *not* as "Tee Ee Cee Oh".

There's some other stuff too, but it follows the same principle:
everything is transcribed exactly as it is spoken, not as you would
normally write it.  (The "stm2sub" script contains some fixes for
this, see below.)

In some cases, it's very hard/impossible to hear exactly what is said,
especially in the Q&A section.  Anyone is welcome to tell me how to
spell out these cryptic mumblings.


ABOUT THE *.sub FILES

The *.sub files are files suitable for input to a program capable of
displaying subtitles.  They are produced by exporting the file from
Transcriber to "STM" format, and then running the "stm2sub" script on
them.  This script is hard-coded to convert only these transcriptions,
since it "fixes" most of the spelling conventions stuff to more
readable, "normal" subtitles.

(I don't know what STM format is for, really, but it was a suitable
intermediate format for further conversion.)