CBBS(R) 4.0.2a 04/18/89 05:54:01 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 204756; next msg =41698; 470 active msgs. Prev. call 04/16/89 @ 10:30, next msg was 41695 Recording logon for next time. Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to abort. >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-30 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 15 KILLED. 50 SUMMARY. 30 04/14/89,23:05:33,204697,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,2 04/14/89,23:10:36,204698,2,PHIL JERN,,7 04/14/89,23:58:19,204699,9,IRA SACHS,,2 16/89,10:31:00,204714,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, ]R,CBBSTEST.CPM, ]R,CBBSTEST.SYM, 04/16/89,10:43:38,204715,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,2 04/16/89,21:07:10,204716,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,0 ]Poop. New version seems to have screwed up the modem. Drat. Back to old version. WARD CHRISTENSEN, 04/16/89,21:15:52,204717,1,RICHARD GOZDAL,,7 04/16/89,21:25:16,204718,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,14 04/16/89,21:46:13,204719,1,FRANK A,fairbanks, 04/16/89,22:56:45,204720,1,STEVE DAVIS,West Chicago/ IL,10 04/17/89,00:15:49,204721,2,ED FOSTER,,1 04/17/89,00:33:47,204722,2,BILL TANEY,,1 04/17/89,00:39:39,204723,2,BILL MATTSON,,3 04/17/89,00:53:26,204724,9,IRA SACHS,,4 04/17/89,02:40:00,204725,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,,1 04/17/89,04:09:26,204726,2,JERRY OLSEN,,9 04/17/89,06:15:46,204727,2,PETE JONES,,1 04/17/89,07:18:20,204728,2,DENNIS STAHL,,4 04/17/89,08:06:08,204729,2,HEINZ LANGE,3 04/17/89,09:18:21,204730,9,MIKE ANDREWS,,1 04/17/89,09:35:30,204731,1,COLIN SCHROEDER,,1 04/17/89,10:27:57,204732,2,PAUL STREETER,, E#41695,55 04/17/89,11:03:08,204733,3,PHIL SCHUMAN,,89 04/17/89,11:06:55,204734,2,GARY ELFRING,,1 04/17/89,12:04:19,204735,2,LARRY HITZ,,0 04/17/89,12:59:11,204736,2,JIM POLOUS,, E#41696,6 04/17/89,13:06:32,204737,1,JEFF MARTIN,,7 04/17/89,13:44:51,204738,3,MIKE FRICANO,, 04/17/89,15:23:46,204739,3,CHARLIE SCGHMIDT,GLENCOE/ IL., 04/17/89,15:35:39,204740,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1 04/17/89,15:50:34,204741,2,JIM PERKINS,,4 04/17/89,16:00:07,204742,3,GABRIEL JENKINS,,17 04/17/89,16:33:59,204743,1,GARY MCCOY,,45 04/17/89,17:13:20,204744,2,RON CASE,,8 04/17/89,18:08:01,204745,2,DAVID GIBBS,,1 04/17/89,18:44:44,204746,3,RAY NEFF,,3 04/17/89,19:00:50,204747,1,DON PIVEN,,2 04/17/89,19:08:53,204748,1,BEN CUKIER,Northbrook/ Il, 04/17/89,19:52:43,204749,1,KEVIN KEYSER,,14 04/17/89,20:54:04,204750,1,TOM MILLS,,6 04/17/89,21:30:02,204751,1,BOB SULLIVAN,,13 04/17/89,22:04:15,204752,1,HESCHEL WEINER,,3 04/17/89,22:07:01,204753,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,5 04/17/89,23:08:12,204754,1,PHIL GUTT,SCHAUMBURG,4 04/17/89,23:34:07,204755,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,, E#41697,4 04/18/89,05:54:05,204756,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 41695 04/17/89 PAUL STREETER => RICHARD HINTON: "R/BASIC TO COMPILED BASIC" 41696 04/17/89 JIM POLOUS => WARD: "OCR" 41697 04/17/89 ERIC BOHLMAN => ALL: "HD TECHNICAL INFO" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 41695 is 02 line(s) on 04/17/89 from PAUL STREETER to RICHARD HINTON re: R/BASIC TO COMPILED BASIC Make that Microsoft's QUICK BASIC compiler, not their original one. It is fantastic if you like BASIC. Msg 41696 is 02 line(s) on 04/17/89 from JIM POLOUS to WARD re: OCR Will that package work with other hand scanners? Secifically THE COMPLET HAND SCANNER 400? If so, how much was it and where can I order it? Msg 41697 is 07 line(s) on 04/17/89 from ERIC BOHLMAN to ALL re: HD TECHNICAL INFO Where would be a good place to get information about the relatively low-level details of hard-disk interfacing, particularly controller-pr processor interfacing? In other words, how to incorporate a hard drive into a system (but not necessarily a general-purpose computer). I ask because I may be involved in the design of a voice-storage system which will incorporate an HD and won't be based on any off-the-shelf computer. dup. chars. >Function:?CBBS(R) 4.0.2a 04/18/89 22:27:40 ++LINE > 9 LONG - truncated, return to ACCEPT, ^U to RE-ENTER: ^U ?^U ?^U ?ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss ++LINE > 9 LONG - truncated, return to ACCEPT, ^U to RE-ENTER: CHRISTENS^U ?^U ?^U ?^U ?ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss ++LINE > 9 LONG - truncated, return to ACCEPT, ^U to RE-ENTER: CHRISTENS^U ?n What is your FIRST name?^U ?^U ?^U ?ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 204780; next msg =41703; 475 active msgs. Prev. call 04/18/89 @ 05:54, next msg was 41698 Recording logon for next time. Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to abort. >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-30 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 2 KILLED. 50 SUMMARY. 30 04/18/89,06:09:58,204757,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41700,2 04/18/89,06:19:59,204758,1,BILL WOLFF,,2 04/18/89,06:41:14,204759,2,BILL WOLFF,, 04/18/89,06:57:54,204760,2,BILL WOLFF,, E#41701,2 04/18/89,07:01:05,204761,2,DENNIS STAHL,,4 04/18/89,07:12:48,204762,2,ART CLEMONS,,1 04/18/89,07:29:55,204763,2,BILL WOLFF,, E#41702,3 04/18/89,09:19:17,204764,2,PAUL STREETER,,2 04/18/89,13:46:30,204765,1,PHIL ALDERMAN,ELK GROVE,4 ]PHIL ALDERMAN, 04/18/89,13:50:47,204766,1,PHIL ALDERMAN,, 04/18/89,14:06:41,204767,1,PHIL ALDERMAN,,22 04/18/89,14:59:39,204768,1,STEVE JONES,chicago/il, 04/18/89,15:33:01,204769,1,LANE LARRISON,,2 04/18/89,15:38:56,204770,2,CLIFF SHARP,,4 04/18/89,15:58:26,204771,1,LANE LARRISON,,1 04/18/89,16:14:42,204772,1,LANE LARRISON,,1 04/18/89,16:17:47,204773,2,JACK HOMA,,4 04/18/89,16:43:35,204774,1,LANE LARRISON,,2 04/18/89,16:45:51,204775,2,ROGER HALE,,11 04/18/89,17:10:53,204776,2,GARY ELFRING,,2 04/18/89,19:28:23,204777,1,ERIC BAKER,elmhurst/ il, >Help: 17,44 04/18/89,20:40:31,204778,2,DAVID GIBBS,,1 04/18/89,22:12:00,204779,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,68 04/18/89,22:28:25,204780,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 41698 04/18/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "<$50 PC SPEECH SYNTH" 41699 04/18/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => JIM POLOUS: "R/OCR" 41700 04/18/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "STILLWATERS BBS LIST?" 41701 04/18/89 BILL WOLFF => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/<$50 PC SPEECH SYNTH" 41702 04/18/89 BILL WOLFF => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/<$50 PC SPEECH SYNTH" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 41698 is 23 line(s) on 04/18/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ALL re: <$50 PC SPEECH SYNTH Got a GREAT new toy last night - Covox Speech Thing. I bought it from Nelson Ford's Public (Software) Library, POB 35705, Houston TX 77235-5705, (713) 665-7017. What is it? A "thing" which is a D/A converter that hooks TO YOUR EXISTING PARALLEL PORT - and your printer hooks into the back of IT, so you don't lose any function. Like the no-slot-clock, this is one of those "doesn't take anything away from you" great add-on products. You load up over 80K of resident text-to-speech code, then run a BASIC program and tell it what file to speak. Full source comes for the routines to access the resident speech routines, in BASIC or C. I wrote a little program to strip out the message header stuff from Compuserve messages, and then I run the BASIC program to speak it. Variable speed, pitch, etc - just great! I can see an ambitious person developing applications to use it even better - one shortcoming is there's no "interactive" phoneticization - i.e. if it says a word wrong, you can't interactively "toy" with fixing the word - but it DOES have a full list of the phonemes, and the ability to add mis-pronounced words to a dictionary (which it apparently looks up in assembly as part of the speaking process). Just barely have used it, and am "ear training" to recognize words it has slight difficulty with. It is VERY understandable WHEN YOU'RE READING ALONG, but will take a bit of time to learn its pronunciation. Msg 41699 is 11 line(s) on 04/18/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to JIM POLOUS re: R/OCR The OCR package is specifically marketed by Diamond Flower for use with THEIR HS-3000 hand scanner. Since it is able to "read back" the DPI setting off of the scanner (it goes 100, 200, 300, or 400 DPI), I must assume it is quite hardware specific. However, the software is from a company that was co-displaying at Comdex, and I have the info on that - you could call or write: Pattern Analytics Inc Robert M. Ray PhD President (Met him at the Comdex booth) 3144 Merrianne Drive Raleigh, NC 27607 (919) 787-8612 Msg 41700 is 06 line(s) on 04/18/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ALL re: STILLWATERS BBS LIST? I understand Colby Jordan is now maintaining a BBS list, now that Sonka no longer is. Anyone familiar with that list? Think it would be suitable for inclusion in the CBBS low numbered messages instead of the VERY old Sonka list? If anyone has it, who is also a Chinet guest, perhaps they could upload it to my rje. Thanks! Msg 41701 is 13 line(s) on 04/18/89 from BILL WOLFF to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/<$50 PC SPEECH SYNTH Well Ward, I don't know how long it has been available for the PC, but on Commodore Computers I have three of such programs. It sounds like the Commodore type is more advanced. One of them is called HEARSAY 1000. Not only does it speak, but it listens too. Instead of typing, you just talk to your computer. People maybe thinking, hey that's the way to go. But the truth of the matter is that, it's like talking to someone who doesn't understand English to well. For someone handicapped, it maybe great! But to most people, the newness wears off quickly. Oh my cost for HEARSAY 1000? I got it brand new at $20.00 with demo software and talking Terminal Software. Log-on and look Mom, no hands! Msg 41702 is 18 line(s) on 04/18/89 from BILL WOLFF to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/<$50 PC SPEECH SYNTH Another thing of interest to you Ward, another Speech program for the Commodore was called S.A.M. It was all software driven. No added hardware at all. It sounds as good as the hardware type. It was also available for the Apple too. The thing that might interest you, is that I took the speech synth prgs and wrote a BASIC program to use a modem to answer your calls. Like a answering machine. It recorded the time and date and printed it out if needed. The cassette recorder was a piece of cake. Radio Shack has this small box to hook up to your tape recorder and phone line. When the modem answered the phone, the recorder automaticly started. I have not even heard of anything today with all the features I packed into that program. I never released any version of it and dropped any furture work on it for two reasons (1) It tied up the computer, and (2) Some people didn't understand some words it spoke. It's like listening to a person with an accent. Once you got use to it, it was almost completely understandable. What did I do next? I bought a dedicated machine. It's called a ANSWERING MACHINE! dup. chars. >Function:?