On 12/16/20 12:35 PM, Bob Smith via cctech wrote:
> We had a Votrax in our lab at DEC around that time, we set it up with > a photo detector to trigger a phrase when someone walked by. IIRC > programing the sounds used a phoneme library... that was fun figuring > out before we finally got the manual!! Yep; it was all phoneme based, which made puzzling out how to use it interesting. Ours had an effective upper limit of speed at which you could pipe serial data at it before it suffered a buffer overrun; you could tell when that happened because it would, for want of a better term, start to wail (it would occasionally do that on reset as well). Interesting piece of kit; IIRC it arrived as an encapsulated brick with wires hanging out... -- Christian Kennedy, Ph.D. [email protected] AF6AP | DB00000692 | PG00029419 http://www.mainecoon.com PGP KeyID 108DAB97 PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97 "Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration…"
