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In article <1992Dec29.134452.27414@ulrik.uio.no>, rivero@cc.unizar.es
(Alejandro) wrote:
> 
> Any info about the status (last version, last machine it worked,
> current seller) of the following things:?
> 
> MacInTalk.
Apple (or someone inside Apple) did a System 7 update to this, I believe it
is 2.0. Current version works.

> ChipWits.  (remember that old robot...)
Yep, I do. Sorry, it broke so long ago (with no updates) that I don't have
any info on this. ChipWits is long dead, but the closest equivilant product
probably would be RoboSport, from Maxis.

> SmoothTalker. (better 
First Byte is still around, and I guess that Smoothtalker is also. They
make a DOS/Windows version now, also.
BTW, Apple has been promising a newer, much better 'MacInTalk' replacement
for quite a while now. I have even talked to a person that claimed to have
heard a demo of an Apple text-to-speech software that was VERY clear, with
very little 'accent' or 'mechanical' sound. WELL??? Where IS it, MAN????

> Servant. (guess what system version Im not using)
Hmmm, System 7? Andy Hertzfeld gave up on this before MultiFinder came out,
please don't even try to use this. I would guess that it stopped working
somewhere early in the System 3 / Finder 5 era. This was never a commercial
product, it was 

> Switcher.  
If you have enough memory for Switcher, you have enough for MultiFinder.
They both need to load all programs into RAM. Go with MultiFinder. Switcher
worked until MultiFinder was released, then support was dropped. Late in
the Finder 5 era. 

> rivero@cc.unizar.es

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