[DECtalk] old synthesizers and baud rate?

[joshknnd1982 at gmail.com]

Brandon, did you use old hardware synths in 1990 1992 or so? If so which
ones? 


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From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of Brandon Misch
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 19:53
To: DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] old synthesizers and baud rate?

probably had to do more with printing or embossing when it comes to the
braille 'n speak and other products.

On 1/27/23, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> You know I wonder why one or two old hardware synthesizers had such 
> high baud rates? The old Keynote SA I had, used baud rate 38400. All 
> the others, my braille 'n speak and braille lite used baud rate 9600. 
> Such a high baud rate of 38400 would give no advantage to screen 
> reader or speech synthesizer. Unless they didn't want people copying 
> text directly to the synthesizer through the serial port so they chose 
> a very high baud rate? I think even decTalk only needed 9600 baud.
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> Josh
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