Yes, the darn thing just keeps chugging along, needing only clock
batteries. 20 Meg hard disk was rarely near full.
I still use it as never got to removing or editing all the stuff I had
on it. It didn't have 3 and a half floppy.
Heck, I even have my apple 2, and all programs, Probably forgot how to
use appleworks, and visicalc. the GREAT stuff!
hank smith wrote:
yeeeee was that a 386 or something?
I have one of those thingys the old 386 sitting up in my closit hasn't
been booted up sense like 1992 don't even know if it will even boot
ever sense y2k it had those 2 floppy drives the bigger one and then
the 3 and a half ench ones
thanks
hank
----- Original Message ----- From: "Herzog" <herzog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: More about speakup.
I had a deal wherein the reading edge could accept inputs from an
1986 PC, which had vocal eyes, but used the speech synthizer of the
reading edge.
It only needed serial cord interfaces, and worked well with Q-modem
mail program.
Will
PS I'm told that reading edges go for $300 now, but know someone
looking for one. Will
==========
John G. Heim wrote:
Wow... You know what just occured to me... Wouldn't it be cool if
there was a hardware speech synthesizer emulator?
You plug a null-modem cable into your new computer, connect the
other end to a machine with speech already working, and run an
emulator on the machine with speech already running. The new machine
thinks it's talking to a doubletalk LT for example but it's really
talking to another computer.
It shouldn't even be very difficult to write. You wouldn't have to
worry about what is speaking. Just display whatever the synth is
supposed to be saying. It would be up to whatever speech engine is
on the old machine to do the talking. Write it in perl so it would
be portable, run on any platform.
Wow. I'm going to have to try this when I get home tonight. Connect
a null modem cable to the port my doubletalk would normally be
connected to and see what comes out on a terminal emulator on
another machine. Then, write a perl script to send the same string
to the double talk and see how it responds. And then write a perl
script to say that same thing to the linux box on the other side of
the null modem cable. Keep doing that until I essentually have a
doubletalk LT emulator script.
Might take me more than one night though.
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