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Re: Echo II sound cards
Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Ben Yates replied:
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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.
At one time, TI hoped to have a self-sustaining business in creating
new custom "vocabularies" for its synthesizer chip, and so did not
promulgate software for allowing others to easily generate the LPC
streams. In retrospect, this was probably a mistake.
Along with others they made, like crippling the 99/4a so it wouldn't
hurt their 9000 based mini computer business.
Roy
-michael
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