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Article #621714Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:28
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:28
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On 04 Apr 2018 00:43:06 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote: > > 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. Wow, UNIX and Emacs on an Osborne? Intriguing. > 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. And had a lot of software bundles. I guess I have a quite complete collection of software which came with in. I have no real Osborne but can emulate it on my (Linux) PC. -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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From: Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net>
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