Re: Apple II Sound

[dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail)]

T Gonif (gonif@primenet.no.junkmail!.com) wrote:
: Hey, didn't the Apple-Cat modem come with some kind of speech synthesizer
: as well?  I remember it had that cool two voice music synth built in.

I think it just had a dual-tone sythesized chip.  I remember some pirate
wrote a program that allowed you to turn your Cat into an answering
machine.  You had to have an AppleCat II that had the 1/8" jacks on the
back.  You also had to have a voice-activated casette recorder.  When a
call came in, the program would use SAM to play your outgoing message
thru the Apple casette jack which was piped into the AppleCat and then
tied into your phone line (or maybe it piped it directly through the Cat).
Then when the outgoing message was done, the person would leave their
message and it would be recorded onto the cassette recorder.  Pretty
neat contraption.

Ok, just went and booted it up.  Its called The Personal Answering Service
and it was written by some dude called The Param Man.  You also had to
get some expansion module according to the dox.

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Sam
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