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>Hi.  At last, someone who might have information on something I had 
>been wondering.  I'm addressing the comments about the different 
>versions of Textalker.  I can comment a little on 1.3 since I have 
>that disk image, but information on other versions would be 
>appreciated.  On the 1.3 disk, you have three different versions. 
>One is simply TEXTALKER.  One is TEXTALKER.RAM.  One is 
>TEXTALKER.BLIND.  I assume that textalker.ram is the RAM card 
>version.  I am not sure about the other two, but I know one of them 
>doesn't have a review mode.  I used a version once which made the 
>Echo shound very strange.  It gave it a lower pitch than usual.  It 
>had no review mode so I don't know what version it was.
>
>I also know that the 3.1 versions were from APH.  I found and 
>confirmed a 3.1.3 or possibly 3.1.4 for DOS.  I know there was such 
>a ProDOS version as at least 3.1.3 because I used to have it and it 
>credited Rob Meredith as author.  I don't know about copyright info 
>and I don't know if there was a DOS 3.3 version.  Does anyone know 
>about the 2.x or 3.0 series?  Does anyone have a Textalker older 
>than 1.3?


Yes, somewhere in my array of floppies I have a disk that contains 
Textalker 1.2.  The pitch of the voice when using it sounds OK but 
the quality of the speech is really bad.  Its impossible to explain 
this in words--you have to hear it.

Here is a list of all of the 3.x releases of ProDOS 8 Textalker up to 
and including what I think is/was the last version ever produced:

3.1
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6

I may have missed a few but I definitely have all of the ones listed 
above.  Textalker 3.6 was released in 1993.  Come to think of it, 
there may have also been a 3.2 version but it was nearly identical to 
the 3.1.4 version.  The 3.1.4 version as far as I can tell never had 
an official release but was shipped on the APH Scientific Calculator 
disk.

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