[DECtalk] reading edge with dectalk 1992

[Karen Lewellen]

yes, but likely not as you imagine.
The machine had a small memory like card that  allowed for different 
options.
Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, french, loads of others I am not 
recalling from the time.



On Sat, 28 Jan 2023, Josh Kennedy wrote:

> so I guess the reading edge has multilingual dectalk then?
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jan 28, 2023, at 00:22, Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> wrote:
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>> The reading edge  sold for $5500.
>> Given I am still using one, to write this email in fact, using dectalk, for me   at least made it worth every penny.
>> I have only replaced mine 3 times since I  got one in the 90s, always due to human, not machine error.
>> Have parts and so forth for a spare, which I would gladly pay to have repaired.
>> Part of what it so expensive, aside from the quite terrific scanning is the number of languages supported.
>> Karen
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>>> On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:
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>>> I was right? The reading edge with decTalk made in 1992 was around $6000.
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