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Destroying information is akin to burning books, and where they start burning books they will soon start burning people.

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The commoditization of software in our Capitalistic and consumer-driven world ultimately just makes information disposable, and you're left wondering if there is any enduring value to any of it. We consume more non-renewable energy than ever to power all of our junk. All the toxic stuff required to produce our technology is impossible to get rid of and destroys our environment. At the end of the day one has to ask if the world is really any better off for all of this change and 'progress.' Are people any more fulfilled or any happier? We're more isolated than ever. Of course, most 'innovation' is really just the same tired old ideas re-imagined and repackaged. This has allow ed new ways for people to network socially and stay connected. Networking protocols are leveraged to distribute the processing power required to drive many of today's advanced applications.Pull-requests allow for systems to keep themselves up to date with the latest developments. With new markets and distribution channels, such as app-stores, we see more entrepenureship.

Open Source Software and new licensing models allow many, many individual contributers to collaborate, develop and perfect massive software initiatives, such as Operating Systems, from all over the globe.

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Object Oriented Methodologies and Service Oriented Architectures allow exponentially more opportunites of code re-use, driving down the development time for new innovation.

More people have access to more technology than ever, at lower cost, leading to more creativity and educational opportunities for people all over the world.

This is thanks, in part, to simple interfaces that just have a high overhead.

Enterprise and comsumer systems are easier to use then ever before.

We 're doing more with less in many ways: With most of the world's CPUs running at 99% idle, I don't know that I agree with all of this. BYTE republished it 15 years later, but now it is almost impossible to find easily. In 1981 two Votrax employees, Kathryn Fons and Tim Gargagliano, published an article in BYTE regarding the topic of voice synthesis.

The TNT does not have an internal speaker, but the jack on the back is pre-amplified and not a 'line out' signal, so headphones should work fine. I find that a lot can be learned by looking at the data sheets for ICs, and here is the one for the SC-01. It was essentially Gagnon's discrete design mapped to silicon. In 1980, Votrax designed and manufactured an integrated circuit speech synthesizer called the SC-01. It interfaces to the outside world via an onboard RS-232C connector capable of receiving data at eight different baud rates from 75 to 9600 (8-N-1).

The TNT uses a Motorola 6802 CPU with 4K ROM and 1K RAM. Here is Gagnon's patent from 1973: US3908085 The older I get the more I find that I like looking at patents. This was after coming up with a viable design scheme in his basement laboratory during his spare time. Type 'n Talk owes its existence to the speech synthesizer design created in 1970 by Richard T.

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I've put up the contents of the owner's manual, which is impossible to find online in this format: Owner's Manual (PDF) Amazon even had a new-old-stock, 'O1P-1224B,' power supply for it. Yay! I finally obtained a TNT on eBay after 34 years of waiting.