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Re: QTalk - does anyone have it/seen it?

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:28 am
by Pr0f
I suspect this may have been built around something like the CTS256 chip, which was a text to speech device.

https://github.com/jim11662418/CTS256-S ... hipset.pdf

Re: QTalk - does anyone have it/seen it?

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:49 am
by ones' complement
If so then Pico could also emulate cts256a-al2. Could be quite a universal SPO256 Pico emulation for other computers? Hope someone can track down image of QTalk PCB to confirm :)

Re: QTalk - does anyone have it/seen it?

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:00 pm
by Derek_Stewart
jobdone wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 6:24 am Derek,
I guess UART to the QL's serial port would be a MAX232.
Hi,

As I mentioned earlier, I was bidding on a Qtalk unit, with the view to reproducing it. But the winner, put a ridiculously high bid and I lost it.

I wonder if they have put it to use, or looking at it and thinking how to get the thing to work.

Maybe a picture of both side of the PCB would be enough to get the PCB made, do not know about the device driver.

Re: QTalk - does anyone have it/seen it?

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 4:32 pm
by swensont
Digging through my collection of floppies, I found one labeled "Qtalk". Not sure where I got it. The handwriting on the disk is not mine. I created a floppy image file using dd and confirmed that I can read it with SMSQmulator. I zipped up the image file and it is attached here.

Tim Swenson