tripletalk (was 4DOS)

[Allan Shaw]

Alex,

what would you consider the right price?

At 13:22 27/02/2008, you wrote:
>What are prices for used synths like these days, and what are good
>places to look? I currently just have the transport and an old dectalk
>external (though I haven't gotten speakup to like that yet, all I can
>get it to do is work in Terminal mode with a dec VT510 terminal), and
>it's not what you would call portable.  But another transport, or
>maybe an accent SA, would be convenient to have if I could find one at
>the right price.
>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:04:22AM -0600, John Heim
>wrote:
> > I traded away my tripletalk to a guy who had a doubletalk precisely because
> > the tripletalk wouldn't work with newer versions of speakup.  Ever since I
> > first got the tripletalk, it would take a minute to initialize. The screen
> > would fill with the message timeout while waiting for input" once a second
> > for 60 seconds. And then it would start talking. But somewhere 
> around kernel
> > 2.6.18 it stopped working entirely.  So I posted a message on the 
> NFBCS list
> > asking if anyone with a doubletalk wanted to trade.  Now I have 2
> > doubletalks, one for home and one for work.
> >
> > The advantages of the tripletalk are really conveniences anyway. It can be
> > powered via a USB cable and it has an internal, rechargeable battery. It's
> > nice to not have to worry about the battery. And the tripletalk 
> has a serial
> > cable that can be removed so if it wears out, you can just get a new one.
> > The serial cable on my original doubletalk has worn out twice now.
> >
> > So the one thing I think RC Systems should do is make the serial cable on
> > the doubletalk removable. And the company that makes the tripletalk should
> > make their specs available so it can be made to work with speakup. I think
> > they're missing out on a lot of sales. I will never buy another one because
> > of that.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton at gmail.com>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: 4DOS
> >
> >
> > > It does for me.
> > > The hard part is finding a computer with a serial port.
> > > If you want to spend twice as much you can get a trippletalk USB but I
> > > don't
> > > know if it is 100% compatible with the doubletalk so not sure if it would
> > > work using speakup's doubletalk drivers
> >
> >
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