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- From: jack@sybil.jpl.nasa.gov (Jack Kobzeff)
- Subject: Re: What happened with...?
- Message-ID: <jack-291292102230@compstore.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab
- References: <1992Dec29.134452.27414@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:54:23 GMT
- Lines: 38
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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
-
- Jack Kobzeff (jack@????.jpl.nasa.gov) Mail address is changing
-