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From: hedden@atux01.UUCP (D. Hedden)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: S.A.M. and Speedscript 3.0
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 13:52:49 EST
Article-I.D.: atux01.160
Posted: Mon Feb 10 13:52:49 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 20:13:59 EST
References: <8602051021.AA08835@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Organization: CSEd, AT&T Communications, Piscataway, N.J.
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Summary: S.A.M.

In article <8602051021.AA08835@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>, godden@GMR.CSNET (Kurt Godden) writes:
> 1.  Before I order back issues of ANTIC with S.A.M. programs in them:
>     Is S.A.M (software automatic mouth) a published program in ANTIC,
>     or is it commercial only, and the ANTIC programs just utilities?
> 
> 2.  I am going to type in (!!!) Speedscript 3.0 from May 85 Compute!

S.A.M. is a commercial product, and I don't believe it was ever
published in ANTIC.  I have seen several S.A.M. utilities appear
in ANTIC over the last 3-4 years.  I did purchase S.A.M. a few
years ago and would like to give you this warning.  It comes on
a highly protected boot disc; you use it by booting S.A.M. and 
then running your BASIC program that writes via S.A.M., thus 
producing voice. I bought it so that I could produce software
for my young daughter to use even though she could not yet 
read.  When I got it and found out she would have to boot the
system with one disc, swap discs, and enter a command(s) to
run my program I knew S.A.M. would not meet my needs.  It has 
sat in my cabinet mostly unused since then.  There was a utility
in ANTIC that enabled you have S.A.M. read a program to you.
This has been useful when I have typed programs in from magazine
listings, in that it makes it fairly easy to check my typing.

With regard to typing in Speedscript - I have just replaced
LETTER PERFECT with PAPER CLIP.  It is available under $30 from
discounters and seems to be a very good word processor.

Sorry for the length of this.

  "The moving hand writes ..."