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The Apple II Computer Series - Complete Echo Card Software Collection
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February 26, 2000
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Status: Freeware - for non-commercial distribution and use only!
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The following gives a general review of the ShrinkIt archives you will find
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within the A2.ECHO.SW.ZIP archive.
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============================================================================
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1. Echo Phrases = a text file I compiled listing of all of the 110 (#0
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through 109) phrases on that 800K extended vocabulary disk that you sent me.
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Now, folks can find what they're looking for almost as easily as point and
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clicking in the standard vocabulary files.
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2. Echo.User.Docs = The text files that make up the on-disk manual.
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3. Echo.Word.Editr = This allows a menu of preselected words and phrases to
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be drawn from. It also includes the smaller version of the high quality,
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prerecorded, female speech that the 800K extended vocabulary disk contains,
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but this one runs on a 5.25" floppy.
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4. Textalker.DOS3 = The DOS 3.3 version of Textalker. This program is
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loaded into memory before your application software so that text (not hi-res
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equivalents) will be recognized from your programs and spoken aloud. I've
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always thought that this would make a great companion for typing in a long,
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long Nibble program from the magazine.
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5. Textalkr.PRODOS = ProDOS version of Textalker
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6. Echo2C = The Apple IIc basic Echo II disk. When I bought my first Echo
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][, I bought it through the catalog or through Street Electronics directly (I
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don't remember any more) at full price, but it took four tries and four
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months before I receive the Apple IIe version. They sent me an Echo for the
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Macintosh, for IBM and the Apple IIc before they finally ran out of options.
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I tried the disk, read the manual and discovered that they hadn't sent what I
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bought the Echo for: to use with Tutor-Tech to import the speech. After
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contacting them, I received disks containing the sides of numbers 2, 3, 4 & 5
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above.
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7. Echo2E = The Apple IIe basic Echo II disk
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8. Echo.T.Tech.Stk = A couple of Tutor-Tech stacks that are set up so that
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the 110 Echo Phrases from the extended vocabulary disk can be easily tried
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out for clarity. It does take some time to pick out each phrase and paste it
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into a stack, so this makes browsing through the phrases quick and easy.
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There are two stacks that cover all 110 phrases and a couple of other words
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that are thrown into the phrases file. Tutor-Tech Demo, Teacher and Student
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disk version 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 all support this high quality speech.
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9 & 10. Echo.S1 and Echo.S2 = sides one and two of a commercial reading program
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that uses the Echo. The programs can be bit copied and I found out today that
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they will shrink and expand without any trouble.I don't have the manual to this
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reading series, but I've poked around enough to know that there are options, at
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least in the high reading level versions of this, that allow the teacher to
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preselect whether the programs doesn't speak, speaks only key words, or speaks
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everything. If you or anyone else can figure out what needs to be done to
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access these options, I'd be interested. I seem to remember that they also
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contain letters to parents, record keeping and so on. I keep a master set
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untouched so if a record keeping directory decides not to let another student
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log on until the teacher downloads the current directories scores to make room,
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I can just recopy the disk (since I don't know how to access the records, let
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alone delete any of them.
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11. Tutor.Tech.Stks = are just a couple of my early Tutor-Tech stacks that I
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came across that have nothing to do with the Echo. They're basically the
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same stack, CIRCUS, but ezCIRCUS has a simplified vocabulary. CIRCUS is a
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choose your own adventure type of story that I had actually forgot all about.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Now you all have available the entire Apple II series Echo card software
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collection, plus a few nice extras too. Special thanks to Jay for his TutorTech
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Echo card Talking stacks and for his effort with item number 1 also.
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That<EFBFBD>s All Folks -- Enjoy!
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MacProbrer
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