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Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis

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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:58
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On 4 Apr 2018 22:32:53 GMT, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2018-04-04, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> On 04 Apr 2018 00:43:06 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:
> ...
>>> 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.
>
> It seems to me he simply says he used it as a serial terminal.

May be. But he used a spacial device to control it.

I found the video. Check out
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16NwJwAmbcs#t=7m08s>. If the time mark
doesn't work, skip to 7:08. Although the whole (British) computer show
from 1985 might be a treat to watch.
-- 
Andreas

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