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Article #621713Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 03:43
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 03:43
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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> writes: > I can't quite remember where I saw this. May be the UK series > Database from 1984. They had a blind person there doing text > processing with WordStar on an Osborne 1, using an input device I > didn't understood how it works (no braille line that I am sure). He > was able to move the cursor, write characters, find characters, > replace them... > > Then he could make the Osborne 1 to speak out the text! Sounded a > lot like Stephen_Hawking. Awesome! -- Andreas Interesting. I was using Osbornes from '87 to '93, had the archive of (by then obsolete & discontinued) user-group newsletters, devised my own termcap entry so I could Unix/Emacs by remote dialup etc. And never heard of that. Also interesting that there's very little Osborne 1 traffic on comp.os.cpm. It was a very versatile & durable machine and full specs were available. -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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