Oddly enough, those Texas Instruments synths are all over the place on Ebay. Yet finding others is always hit or miss. I once had a beautiful tape recorder that actually had instructions on how to use it with a computer! The sound was incredible on any tape that I used with it. Sadly, I foolishly plugged the wrong adapter into it and blew out the volts. But if I still have it, I want to see if I can have it repaired, and if not, then I'll look for the box so that I can find the model and look for it. DOS games are great. I'm just terrible with direction so the ones that require me to go through maizes or to remember specific details about locations confuse me enough that I don't play them.
On 9/2/10, Eleni Vamvakari <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, the Echos are strange. I have at least one (maybe two) for the > Apple and two for the PC. Both of the pc ones connect via a serial > port but one has a knob that protrudes out and the other has a dial > like on a radio. I think one has slightly better speech than the > other. I once connected an Echo to one of my XP machines to see if it > would work and it did but wow! lol The poor thing couldn't keep up > with Windows and was going nuts! I also have something that I bought > off of Ebay called a Super Talker. They say it's a 70's synth for the > Apple but I've never opened the box since the computer is in storage. > It appears, from the tiny glance that I took, to be a card of some > type. I don't have the IIE but I did use one in elementary school. > But it had the drives stacked ontop of one another, not side by side. > That said, I do have a very slim dual disk drive that might be for an > Apple IIE. I got alot of stuff from my high school because they were > throwing all of their Apple things away and knew that I loved them. > > Eleni > > On 9/2/10, ROSEMARIE CHAVARRIA <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, Kim, >> >> I think that's the synthesizer we used two. In my class we used a program >> called word talk. I remember the two floppy disks too. It was really >> funny >> how the speech would pronounce certain words. For instance, when it said >> "friends", it sounded like someone with a Southern accent. It also >> pronounced "Chicago" like you'd say "chicken". I thought that was >> hilarious! >> >> Rosemarie >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kim Kelly >> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 5:33 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum, >> >> I remember taking a computer class in the mid 80s, and we used a huge >> computer and two floppy disks and we used a speech program called "Vert >> Plus". >> Has anyone heard of that speech synthesizer? I thought that class was so >> fascinating. >> >> Learning Doss and all of those commands. >> What memories. >> >> >> >> Kim Kelly >> >> Clarkston Washington >> >> Email and facebook: >> [email protected] >> >> Alternative E-mail: >> >> [email protected] >> >> skype: >> >> kblinky971 >> >> >> Visit my website >> http://www.samobile.net/users/kimk59/ >> >> Keep on smiling and everyone will wonder what you've been up too. >> author unknown >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lenny McHugh" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum, >> >> >>> Well, my first PC type computer was Maryland Computer Systems ITS, >>> information through speech. I then upgraded to total talk PC again by >>> Dean >> >>> Blazie. >>> Then at home Karen won an 8088 Packard Bell xt computer. With that >>> system >>> I used jaws for dos. I believe that in the mid 1980s is when I purchased >>> jaws for windows 1 for windows 3.0. At that time I hated windows and >>> still >> >>> am not a fan of PCs. Give me my old big mainframes. B5500, B6700 then >>> into >> >>> the larger IBM mainframes. The first computer that I worked on was an >>> RCA >>> spectra 70 and the IBM 1401. >>> On these systems I had to write my own read /write macros and multiply >>> and >> >>> divide routines. That was a lot of fun. >>> For the ITS, it was the world's first talking computer linked to an IBM >>> mainframe. When it was linked a news release was sent out through AP. I >>> started receiving calls from all around the world inquiring about it. >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "heather kd5cbl" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 7:07 PM >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum, >>> >>>> One of my favorite system is weird! It was a 280 or 480 something back >>>> in the 80s. We had to use vex. I remember that we thought it was the >>>> coolest thing. That was when you had two floppy drives and about 2 or >>>> three buttons to turn the computer on. That thing is still probley >>>> working today! I remember we took the computer apart in school to see >>>> how the components worked. Remember that is when it took two folks to >>>> carry it or maybe it is because we were so little. I just remember >>>> playing that typing game where you hit a key before the ghost gets you. >>>> And I remember all the commands just to make the computer function. >>>> You >>>> had to do it in the exact order or you had to do it all over again. I >>>> remember having to type "win" inter to make the windows come up. I >>>> remember that if you wanted to spell check something, you had to put >>>> another flopp disk in that had the dictionary or part of it to get the >>>> correct word. I liked my old dos based commands. I was real >>>> disappointed when you did not have the direct access to windows root >>>> comands. I mean you can still have access but, dos was just so much >>>> more >> >>>> efficient. Heather >>>> >>>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>> >>> >>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
