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From: jhagen@talos.npri.com (Jarom Hagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacinTalk
Keywords: MacinTalk
Message-ID: <2312@talos.npri.com>
Date: 29 May 91 21:14:38 GMT
References: <1991May29.085135.12717@netcom.COM>
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Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA
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jkatz@netcom.COM (Joseph Katz) writes:


>As you may have gathered from the above, there was a falling out between Apple
>and us.  The basic problem was that when the Mac II was under development, we
>went to Apple and tried to create a working relationship with them.  At that
>time, totally out of the blue, Apple demanded source code to MacinTalk, and
>flatly stated that they would not consider any form of compensation. 

Owch!

>As I said before, since that meeting I've been in contact with several people
>at Apple (after about a year or so) and have actually found most of the initial
>contacts rather enthusiastic about resuscitating MacinTalk, but it never got
>very far.

I suppose Apple thinks that digitized voice and sound is better.  I would 
rather have the synthetic voice of MacinTalk.  It was great when the Mac
could "speak" a text file too you!  Digitized sound takes up lots of disk
and memory too. :-(

Jarom
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