Hi..<br>
I realize that, as a lurker, not being blind (at least not with my
glasses on...) though I grew up partially deaf (a surgery changed that
a few years ago), but absolutely loving (still) my old Apple IIe, I
should probably keep my mouth shut.<br>
<br>
However, a warning about the name <a href="http://blind-apple.com">blind-apple.com</a>. Beware of any
domain with a hyphen... While it looks cleaner, when you try to
actually *say* the name it can be abit confusing... A friend of
mine recently tried to tell another person of '<a href="http://strategic-data.com">strategic-data.com</a>' (a
site he created and currently resides on his server). This is a
paraphrased transcript of the one-sided conversation i heard through
the phone...:<br>
<br>
"sure, one of the sites I made was the local company I used to work at. Go to strategic...."<br>
*pauses listening*<br>
"Yup, s - t - r - a - t - e - g- i - c. Dash dat....."<br>*pause*<br>
"No no, dash, not underscore...."<br>
*pause*<br>
"I don't understan... oh! No, not the slash key.. dash... the one between the zero and equal-sign..."<br>
*pause*<br>
"Right, dash data dot com..."<br>
<br>
I think he was talking to someone that wanted him to do their website
and wanted to see some stuff he'd already done. Just a warning,
while in most cases, it is understood, it can sometimes be vaguely
confusing to people unused to typing in URL addresses...<br>
<br>
~tearsong<br>
<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/9/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jayson Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:ratguy@bellsouth.net">ratguy@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>I know for an absolute fact that in late November of last year RC was still<br>selling some Apple cards. I got a Doubletalk for Christmas.<br>Unfortunately I can't help you with Appleworks as I never used that. If you
<br>do have a Doubletalk, it should also be able to emulate the popular Echo<br>speech synthesizer developed by Street Electronics. The Echo uses software<br>called Textalker as its driver. If you'd like a copy to test out, and can
<br>handle disk images, let me know and I can point you at a disk image.<br>Actually, any of the "talking" disks at <a href="http://jaybird.no-ip.info/disks">http://jaybird.no-ip.info/disks</a> have<br>Textalker already on them, so can be used to test Echo functionality.
<br>Jayson.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Ed Eastman" <<a href="mailto:eeastman@gmail.com">eeastman@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <<a href="mailto:blindapple@jaybird.no-ip.info">
blindapple@jaybird.no-ip.info</a>><br>Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 10:35 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Domain name for the Blindapple site and list?<br><br><br>> Jayson Smith wrote: What type of speech synthesizer card do you have?
<br>> Also, what type of Apple do you have?<br>><br>> I'm not exactly sure which card I have, it's either a Double talk or a<br>> slot buster. I purchased it from R C Systems quite a while back, and I<br>> have it in a bag on a shelf. Ok, I'm pretty sure it is the double talk
<br>> card. At that time I was also still able to get the Apple works<br>> modification software.<br>><br>> This was a couple years ago and I've never done anything with it other<br>> than make it say a few choice words. (I didn't have Apple Works 3 at
<br>> the time.) Does anyone know if the software will work or can be made to<br>> work with Appleworks 5? I was afraid of damaging my Version 5 disks.<br>><br>> Lemme look up the web site.<br>> <a href="http://www.rcsys.com/index.htm">
http://www.rcsys.com/index.htm</a><br>><br>> Hmm, according to A2 Central in July of 2003 RC systems was still<br>> selling the Double talk and slot-buster cards. Today their web site<br>> reveals no reference to their old products.
<br>><br>> Thankx,<br>> Ed<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> BlindApple mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:BlindApple@jaybird.no-ip.info">BlindApple@jaybird.no-ip.info</a><br>>
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