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Article #621728Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 18:29
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 18:29
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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes: > Later Perkin-Elmer bought the line, and it became the Perkin-Elmer 7/32 > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata_7/32_and_8/32 re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#35 Osborne 1 with speech synthesis http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#36 Osborne 1 with speech synthesis around 2000, I was in large east coast datacenter and there was a perkin-elmer branded version of our clone controller ... that was handling majority of east coast dialup point-of-sale credit card terminals. at the time, majority of the dial-up point-of-sale credit card terminals were small square boxes with magstripe ... that had 2400 baud dialup and internally emulated PC/XT with flash disk and running MS/DOS. trivia: about that time somebody did a study about upgrading from 2400 baud to 56kbits. it turns out the elapsed time for typical transaction at 2400 baud was less than the 56kbit connect negotiating time (so any move to 56kbit would increased the elapsed time for transaction). other trivia: perkin-elmer was also active VM370 member at SHARE. I remember them doing a study of compression for CMS filesystem. They showed that the pathlength of compression/decompression was frequently offset by the savings in pathlength for doing fewer disks I/O (for the reduced data transferred to/from disk). Bruce Marshall was VM manager at Perkin-Elmer and one of the original (Mar 1978) Knights of VM http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmua/knights.html -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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