On Wed, 22 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > Yeah lots of it was in rom, but not enough to boot without a disk with > software on it. Thats why there wasn't any screen reader for those > machines, just talking programs. That's right, there was a speech synth that you plugged into a socket at the back, I still have one at my parents' place. You could write your own programs to talk under the C64, but to make them speak, you had to put slashes everywhere, and other stuff to get the pauses right and stuff, very weird. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
