I haven't noticed a difference with my last few computers. My old ones I 
did, but these days, they run the same with software synth as hardware, at 
least the way I build them. I just hate the speech from the doubletalk, 
always have but with my old windows 3.1 box I need to program commercial 
radios, dos really, I need that doubletalk. I'd like a dectalk some day, 
that's a bit better. I'd probably never use it with XP though.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: RFI problem.


> Hi.
>
> I am still a big fan of hardware synthesizers, and the venerable DEC
> Express actually works quite well with a Radio Shack USB to Serial
> converter.  The machine still behaves noticably better with a hardware
> synthesizer, even on an Athelon processor and 512MB of RAM.
>
> By the way, does anyone know where to send a DEC Express for repair?  I am
> running on a borrowed one right now because mine called it quits.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 11:02 PM 6/5/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>>Two sound cards can be a challenge to stability in some machines.  It is
>>still handy to have real speech at dos.  You can dig yourself out of 
>>trouble
>>if windows won't boot.  You can run talking dos and dos programs from the
>>desktop.  You can take the extra load off the processor if things get 
>>tight.
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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