OLD DAYS

[Toby Fisher]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote:

> Yeah lots of it was in rom, but not enough to boot without a disk with
> software on it.  Thats why there wasn't any screen reader for those
> machines, just talking programs.

That's right, there was a speech synth that you plugged into a socket at
the back, I still have one at my parents' place.  You could write your own
programs to talk under the C64, but to make them speak, you had to put
slashes everywhere, and other stuff to get the pauses right and stuff,
very weird.

Cheers.

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