Remember the Intex Talker? It was out in about 1983. I used readers for my computer class, but at home I had a TRS-80 with an Intex Talker. I wrote an mBasic program on it. Here's a little about the course I took: Control Data Institute, 04/1983 - 09/1983. Certified computer programmer: Studies included: writing, debugging, and documenting programs in BASIC, FORTRAN, and COBOL. Also received training in accounting, system design, database management, and IBM OS VS JCL for IBM System 370. Control Data Institute does not exist any longer.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eleni Vamvakari Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 11:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum, 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
