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Re: Echo II sound cards
- Subject: Re: Echo II sound cards
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 30 Mar 2004 04:57:46 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
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- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:4860
Roy wrote:
>Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
>> Ben Yates replied:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> The situation is that speech was never a widely available option on
>> Apple II's--meaning more than 10% of the systems--so it did not
>> achieve "critical mass", and did not get the software support that
>> could have made it more useful.
>
>One of the cards that I got came in a Bell&Howell Black Apple that an
>AppleLinc member gave me (Thanks again Dain!), He said that it was used
>in a school for the visually handicapped.
I was tempted to add that the one "venue" in which speech output
was quite common on Apples was in "adaptive" solutions for the
handicapped--still a minority application base.
-michael
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