The high fidelity recording of the quite low-fi DECtalk Evatone demo flexidisc from 1984 seen in Viewer Mail 6. The origins of the very familiar voice we all know are not evident in the demo, but we do get a glimpse into how DEC intended the system to be used. In retrospect synthesized speech automated voicemail seems creepy... hey - how did Stephen Hawking get my number and why is he crank calling me? Enjoy!
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Your jacket is now drryyy.
I had got my first home computer when I was 18 in about 1997 I had aDectalk Express external synthesizer it was considered the Cadillacs out of the external synthesizers at the time used it with Jaws two.0 this definitely brings back memories I never knew until this video was posted that they had originally had this recorded on vinyl cool.
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This is history right here. I am a Dectalk fanboy and didn't know this existed
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aeiou
This reminds me of the Nova Robotics robots of the movie SHORT CIRCUIT, whenever they spoke – of course, no. 5 not included.
aeiou
How could know this existed. My dad worked for Digital Equipment at the head offices in Maynard, MA. I have a huge collection of random old computer parts from when my dad built computers. I asked him and he told me he worked on this device but never heard of this record.
Back to the Future!
john madden
What were the flexible records in National Geographics?
Wow this reminds "not exactly of course" of back in the early 2's when I had to call msn about my account
30 years on, it's still easier listening to this Stephen Hawking guy and his little sister, than some babbling call center person in Bangalore.
Ahhh……the beginning of " Hello, would you like to take a quick survey". I remember getting those Flexidisc records in cereal when I was a kid.
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Sir Stephen Hawking's voice
I just wonder what happened to all of the old DECtalk units from the NOAA that were used for weather radio stations. Some lucky bastid got a few pallets of those for cheap.