doubletalks

[Janina Sajka]

Thanks, Tom. That's a great suggestion I hadn't considered.

I know Josh, so will simply take the opportunity to catch up.

PS: This thread got me wishing I could put that old ISA Doubletalk back
into service. So, I went looking for motherboards that support ISA
slots, but found nothing newer than some supporting Celeron CPUs. Pretty
ancient.

Janina

Tom Fowle writes:
> Janina,
> It would be hard to find a purpose for the ISA cards I suppose, I have a
> spare as well as two serial units.
> 
> However the serial units can be very handy for folks doing custom embedded
> systems arduino's etc.
> 
> You might drop Josh Miele at Smith-Kettlewell a note see if anybody there
> might want them.Depending on how much trouble you want to take, I seem to
> recall there is a list somewhere to exchange out dated access gear.
> Tom Fowle
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:32:26AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > I can't ship an entire machine, but I have several internal Doubletalk
> > cards, as well as an external serial port interfacing Doubletalk, and a
> > serial or USB interfacing Tripletalk I would be able to donate. The
> > internal cards are ISA, though. While it's not impossible to get a board
> > with ISA slots, it's pretty rare and certainly not consumer hardware
> > anylonger.
> > 
> > These old devices are about to get trashed, so if anyone wants them, let
> > me know asap.
> > 
> > Janina
> > 
> > Gregory Nowak writes:
> > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:39:55PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Okash Khawaja, le ven. 15 mars 2019 10:57:35 +0000, a ecrit:
> > > > > 1. What are our options for internal synths which still use direct
> > > > > communication with hardware: acntpc, decpc, dtlk and keypc?
> > > > 
> > > > I was thinking they could just remain in staging. The corresponding
> > > > hardware is very difficult to make work nowadays (typically ISA cards),
> > > > so I don't think it is a problem that they are not in mainline.
> > > 
> > > I'd just like to chime in here, and say that at least myself, and one
> > > more person on this list are still using a DoubleTalk PC card (dtlk
> > > driver). While I understand the two of us are in the minority, it
> > > would be appreciated if these cards could be made to work once again
> > > with newer kernels.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, shipping a PC within the U.S. is quite expensive, never
> > > mind shipping one from the U.S. to the U.K. Since this hardware is
> > > also rare as Samuel points out, I admit parting with that machine to
> > > ship it would be a last resort option for me. Getting into linux
> > > development is on my to do list, so maybe I'll resolve this myself one
> > > day if I'm still using the DoubleTalk card by that time.
> > > 
> > > Greg
> > > 
> > > 
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Janina Sajka

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