Ah, Greg, I'm jealous! But, I may catch up to you. I do have a pristine, never used, Socket 7 mobo, appropriate CPU and RAM here. Just need to find a case and psu for it, I suppose. I've got about 3 ISA Doubletalk cards. Janina Gregory Nowak writes: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 04:59:24PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > Another question is that we still have drivers for old internal ISA > > synthesizers, such as the doubletalk pc, dectalk pc, accent pc and > > keynote pc. Are these being used? > > Yes, I still have an old box here with an isa slot with a doubletalk > pc. I mainly use it these days to access other linux boxes, because > I'm very fond of my doubletalk, and don't want to give it up if I > don't have to. I have nothing against espeak/espeakup, it's just that > hearing that "doubletalk pc found" message invariably brings a smile to my > face. Also, maybe it's my imagination, but that doubletalk pc on old > hardware seems to still be slightly more responsive than > espeak/espeakup on modern hardware. I have also idly toyed with the > idea of getting one of these: > > http://www.arstech.com/item--usb2isa.html > > and found myself wondering if speakup could be made to drive a doubletalk pc > through this converter. > > Greg > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina at rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
