Wow Chuck, you were wealthy! My first voice synth was produced for the Radio Shack model one computer in '78 or '9 I think. I may actually still have that old thing laying around somewhere but I'm not sure. A stock broker up in New York somewhere made the first screen review software for it. His name was Peter something but I don't remember anymore about him than that. Before that model one I used the old Commodore Pet with the chicklet keyboard. I wrote a simple routine to read the screen memory and ship it out the IEEE-488 port to drive a speaker as an oscillator to produce Morse code. I used that computer to do my Physics fields assignment and ended up selling the program to the physics department as well. That system is not a memory which brings back fond recollections. The worst voice synth is a hundred times faster than Morse. It worked however. I even ran some experiments at the time hooking up solenoids eight to be specific to the IEEE-488 output bus to try to use that for data. Way to fast and gave up before to long because I could translate Morse faster than I could convert binary. In those days you loaded programs and data off cassette tape so you'd start a program loading and go poor a cup of coffee and get a snack. It was faster than typing them however with my KIM-1. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
