Boy, are you right about elegant code. I remember being able to write
something in Turbo pascal that was only 12K. And I knew enough 8086 assembly
to  call BIOS functions and the like. Basically I knew just enough to
realize how hard writing real software in assembler could be and had great
admiration for those who did.

I still have a screen reader for DOS that used only the PC speaker and was
modeled to imitate Ron Hutchinson's PC Talking program; used the same
keystrokes. It was written by Randy Formenti  N8kl,I believe.  

There was so much great and speech-friendly DOS software. Every year, I plan
to put together a speech-friendly bootable CD with Freedos, but haven't
gotten very far. I've collected all the software I want, but the FreeDOS
install is so speech unfriendly I've never got it actually installed! 

This would be such a great project, if I can ever get a good talking
bootable FreeDOS CD working. Of course, it would have to default to using
the DOS CW screen reader, or require the user have some ancient serial port
synth.

--Debee
 

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Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 2:07 PM
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Subject: cw

good news bad news.
fsend221 seems to work, but I guess this computer doesn't have an internal
speaker, and their isn't a way to make it use a sound card.  That's how old
it is.  The zip file is only 35K so it can easily be sent as an attachment.
Imagine the elligant programming used to make a program that small.  That
includes the documentation as well as the .exe file.
Those were the days!!!
H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
Adaptive Technology Instructor