doubletalks

[Tom Fowle]

Janina,
In a brief look my wife found quite a surprising number of boards withISA
slots, but as you say the best to be found is a pentium 5 celeron dual core
3.2 GHZ for I think $350.00 or so.

Considering that as of now you've gotta run an ancient kernel it doesn't
seem a reasonable venture <SIGH>

Hope Josh can use at least the serial DTLKs.

Tom Fowle


On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 01:56:05AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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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