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Re: Serial to parallel interface on a Mac

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From: Straka
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1988 04:08
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In article <3499@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
>In article <678@sdcc15.UUCP> pa1611@sdcc15.UUCP (pa1611) writes:
>[desire for Mac serial<->parallel conversion]
>>Speed is not critical because I'm interfacing a speech chip that
>Just curious, why not use the Mac itself to do your speech synthesis?
>This would save you quite a bit of hardware work.

Not to mention that the (albeit crude) text to speech algorithms for the Mac
are contained in a piece of FREE system software called MacInTalk.
Pretty slick, eh?  There IS some reason that the Mac is a bit more expensive
than the typical clone:  It does a whole lot more!  (But I guess I'm biased!)
-- 
Rich Straka     att!ihlpf!straka

Avoid BrainDamage: MSDOS - just say no!
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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Serial to parallel interface on a Mac
Keywords: Mac, Serial to parallel
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Date: 8 Nov 88 04:08:02 GMT
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