Not foul, but, 20 years ago when I tried, I couldn't get the Votrax to say "computer" instead it would say "compooter", for that spelling. So, how do you have a Votrax type-n-talk say computer? John A.

Rumor has it that ed sharpe may have mentioned these words: Of course (along with probably a goodly number of folks here) I had programmed a couple of the more "standard" four-letter-words into it... but what I did with it once [when I was a teen] was *evil*... ;^> A couple of weeks earlier, I had convinced my sister that I had an invisible friend named "George." (My sister has always been rather gullible, unknown to me at the time due to the beginnings of schizophrenia. I would, of course, never do this now.) I wrote a basic program with preprogrammed answers to simple questions based on guesstimate timing & single keypresses for the responses, and told my sister that "George" had found his way into my computer and taken over. After telling her to ask him "Anything," knowing that it was doubtful she would get past the basics, for almost 5 minutes she questioned "George" and he dutifully answered her. After that, she was thoroughly convinced that George was indeed real & in my computer, making it alive. Seeing the reaction of other people when my sister tried to convince them that "My brother's invisible friend named George took over his computer and was talking to me!" was priceless. ;^> Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Randomization is better!!! If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.