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From: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Watson Hackers?
Keywords: Watson Speech Digitizing Answering_Machine
Message-ID: <1459@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 04:15:17 GMT
References: <1138@bucket.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ
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In article <1138@bucket.UUCP> rickb@bucket.UUCP (Rick Bensene) writes:
]I was wondering if anyone out there has taken to trying to figure out just
]how their 'Watson' works.  In case you might be wondering just what a Watson
]is, it is a board for IBM-PC which provides a TI 32020 DSP as a coprocessor
]to the PC.  There is also a codec to do the digitizing, and all the

I also have a Watson and bought the $50.00 book. I would love to use
it with microport (it's sure silly to boot up DOS just to answer the
phone!). I called up the manufacturer and they were completely uninterested!
They offered to sell me the source code for $1,000,000 but would offer
no help otherwise. SIgh. I HATE people with attitudes like that!
If anyone has a device driver, etc, for it for Unix, I'd sure like
to have it.
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