ancient speech synthesizers

[Gregory Nowak]

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By IBM PC do you mean a machine made by IBM, or a machine compatible
with that architecture? If you are referring to a compatible machine,
then this should still be doable I think either with a DOS/win9x boot
disk, or it should even be doable with gdb under GNU/Linux. Do you
remember what the memory address was?

Also, I just remembered that there were some 486 machines, and even
some early 586 machines that let you get into bios via a hotkey
sequence from within DOS. I remember using one such machine with
provox7, and while the accessibility wasn't great, because the numpad
review functionality went away as soon as you used that hotkey
combination to get into bios, it still did do the job, since every
single key press read the full screen from what I recall, which
incidentally, was in columns as well.

Greg


On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:07:33AM -0400, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:
> The IBM PC used to have a way to access the BIOS using debug under MSDOS.
> You just typed in the memory address and the BIOS program came up and Using 
> ASAP I was able to make any changes I needed.
> It was reading the same interface that my sighted friends were using.
> 

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