What about the external synthesizers made for the apple 2? ****************************** My drinking team has a bowling problem.
robert Doc Wright http://www.wrightplaceinc.net msn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Matzura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:48 PM Subject: Re: Apples apples everywhere On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:47:54 +1100, you wrote: >You talk of Screen Readers 20 years ago for the Apple. Well as far as I know >(and someone could correct me on this) but there wasn't a screen reader for >the Apple at that time, En contraire, mon fraire, the Apple 2 (writtten "][") line had an excellent screenreader called Textalker, from a company in California called Street Electronics. Its main problem was that any program loaded into the same portion of memory occupied by Textalker would wipe it out! All the specialty software written for the Apple by Bill Grimm and his company had to do handsprings with memory management in order to shove the speech in there and not have it displaced by the binaries that were loaded after the operating system booted and Textalker was started. Talking Transend (communications) and that three-in-one program, I forget its name, it had Documents, Agenda and Filer all in one suite type structure, they all had this same Textalker built into them which was loaded first when the system was booted. Remember, because of the speech, you couldn't hardly run anything without rebooting the system unless it was written in Apple Basic, which didn't load into the same portion of memory occupied by Textalker. And then along came ProDOS. Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.2/1142 - Release Date: 11/20/2007 5:44 PM Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
