Dec Talk internal cards supported?

[Bear in SFO]

Of course it had been a decade+ since I last used Emacs and have forgotten 
most of the commands already (back then I can see and therefore had cheat 
sheets and manuals)

Oh well I guess until I can find an external DEC that I can afford, my poor 
BNS will have to do the job AND be my 'digital diary' :)

--David

At 01:33 PM 10/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello all.  There are no dectalk internal boards supported to my
>knowledge.  Only the external serial dectalk express and the original
>dectalk external synthesizers are supported.  The problem with the
>internal isa cards is that they have to have software downloaded onto
>the card before they can be used.  Since Speakup is activated and
>initialized almost the first thing after the kernel is loaded and
>initialized, and before the file system is available, there is at
>present no way to have the kernel download the software onto the
>internal dectalk boards.  I believe you can use these boards with emacs
>speak, but I am not familiar with it, and so can not say.  Making these
>dectalk boards usable is on Kirk's to do list, but there are a number of
>things that have to happen first, such as the almost complete rewrite of
>Speakup to make it usable with the 2.2.5 kernels, and the modularization
>of the synthesizer drivers, before a dectalk-pc driver could be written.
>
>Gene
>
> >It is difficult to find computers or have on ebuilt with the isa slots
> >required for the dec pc's.  So $150 might be unrealistic.
> >
> >-- charlie.
>
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