Pretty good week

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Sat Feb 28 00:29:16 1998

Thanks for the information and I will check to see if they are still in
business. John
At 08:20 PM 2/27/98 -0800, you wrote:
>"John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys_at_concentric.net> wrote:
>> My best find was free card called a SYNPHONIX Electronic Speech
>> Articulator model 100 by a company called Artic Technologies with a date
>> 1985 on it. Does anyone have any more info on this card such as is for a pc
>> or apple, any special software needs ? Thanks and keep on computing -->
>
>Artic Technologies makes (at least I think they are still around, they
>were a year or so ago) devices that talk. I've seen them in operation
>because one of my co-workers is blind and needs that sort of thing to
>use her computer.
>
>That said, I think one of the devices she has is an ISA card with the
>SYNPHONIX legend on it. It has an ISA back plate with a headphone
>jack and (I think) a volume control knob poking through. There is
>also a speaker on the card that can make itself heard over the fan and
>through the case. It's been a while since I've seen this one (she
>used it briefly in 1995-1996, I think she keeps it as a spare) and
>I've no idea whether they also made any Apple-flavored devices.
>
>Until recently she used a serially-attached talking box, also from
>Artic. Now she is using software that can use the sound card in her
>PC (it previously used the Artic box but she prefers to not carry
>extra bits around).
>
>Regarding software, from what I've seen of the Artic software, it is
>copy-protected and uses the Artic talker as a serialized dongle. The
>new software (from another company) has a key disk that lets you
>install the authorization on the hard disk, sort of like the old Lotus
>1-2-3 v2.0 copy protection.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>-Frank McConnell
>
>
Received on Sat Feb 28 1998 - 00:29:16 GMT