TRS-80 Model 1 (was: Arty computers

[Richard]

In article <45C2FE00.32498.8FD5BC6 at cclist.sydex.com>,
    "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>  writes:

> On 2 Feb 2007 at 8:38, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> 
> > > > There was Software Automatic Mouth for the C64 (SAM),
> > > 
> > >    Wasn't that a speech synthesizer, rather than a recognition system?
> > 
> > Correct.
> 
> And long before that, there were the Votrax and Computalker S-100 
> boards.

I first heard speech synthesis with a Votrax unit attached to a PLATO
system at UDel in 1978.  The PLATO folks there were pretty arrogant
and obviously had a bigger budget than we did with their comfy chairs,
fancy rooms (with AIR CONDITIONING!), Votrax units and PLATO graphics
terminals while we had LA-36s and wiggy Beehives at 300 baud.  We were
the underdogs :-).
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