13 Feb
2000
13 Feb
'00
3:38 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 04:45:02PM +0000, David Vohs wrote:
The TI-PC was released in 1984 not too long after the
world famous TI-99/4A
rolled over & died. The machine itself is a partial IBM-PC clone, but is not
completely compatible as it uses a proprietary disk format (reminds me of an
AT&T PC 6300/6400), & it's own version of DOS (TI-DOS, to be exact). The
machine reportedly had excellent graphics hardware (for the day, anyway), &
one of the best early PC keyboards anywhere.
Did I imagine this or did TI have some kind of speech synthesizer doodad
for this machine? I have a (possibly false) memory of seeing a TI-PC
(the P stands for "professional", not "personal", right?) at a
computer show
(probably another one of those Hynes Auditorium things) back when it was
a current product, and the folks running the booth were very proud of the
fact that the thing was talking, I remember noticing that the speech had a
discernable Texan accent and thinking "well that figures!" So that suggests
it wasn't the usual Votrax SC01 stuff that was *everywhere* back then.
John Wilson
D Bit