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Re: Mike Cory and Echo Speech

On 2013-04-13 18:30:50 +0000, D Finnigan said:


Yesterday I was at a symposium presenting a poster about my Apple II book
and a number of the older folks stopped by and told me their stories about
having an Apple II back in the day.

One of these people was a woman who said that she and her husband purchased
an Apple II Plus with 16K RAM in 1979 and had a cassette machine for
storage. She went on to say that her husband, who was unable to come with
her that day, was Mike Cory and that he was involved with Echo Speech
synthesis, and that he programmed in 6502 machine language. She also
mentioned some involvement with writing the manual too.

Is any of this familiar to people here, ie, anyone recognize the name? I
wished I could have met him too that day!
I assume you're asking whether anyone recognizes Mike Cory's name -- certainly I expect lots of people recognize the Echo name. Street Electronics produced a speech synthesis card called the Echo II that allowed for text-to-speech on the Apple II (and there were a couple of versions, one of which worked with the //c I believe). I took a look at the "manual" disk and it doesn't seem to have anybody's name in it (though I suppose there's no reason to think the person you spoke with was making it up).