[rescue] DECtalk

[Eric Dittman]

> > I don't remember the DECtalk having any 'phone capabilities, but I
> > last saw it in 1993, so I could have forgotten.  Certainly, the
> > project I worked on didn't use that capability, if it existed.
> 
> I think it did - I recall it had DTMF capability for both recognition
> and "speaking"... I think the phone connection was the key part of the
> unit, as others have learned a machine that talks to you at random
> intervals is entertaining, but seldom useful (unless, of course, there
> is an astro-physicist on the other end of it! ;^)...

There was a rack-mount DECtalk unit that took multiple cards and
were designed for phone use.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net