coolio Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Sorry to hear that, Greg. I hope things work out soon for you. What kind of field are you in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Understood, been there done that, will be hoping the best for you. It will work out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregallenwarner Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 coolio, I'm a computer programmer by profession. Java mostly, though I'm pretty capable in a number of languages. It's tough finding a local programmer position since so many programming jobs get outsourced overseas these days. I'm checking in some hospitals around here, since they often have in-house programmers. Thanks for the best wishes guys! I'll let you know if anything develops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 I just started working for Onshore Outsourcing a company that is trying to pull jobs back into America, especially rural areas. I'm working in C#, ASP.NET MVC 5, and MS SQL Server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fimbulvetr Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Hey Greg.. did you ever get a chance to pick up this project again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Seconded! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 I know Greg had a few PCB's and components ordered and ready to put together last year. Not sure if he ever got around to it, I know life got in the way like with most of us. I think I recall him stating the PCB was not through hole design so surface mount I think. Hopefully he will log in soon to answer and we could all see this come to fruition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregallenwarner Posted November 10, 2016 Author Share Posted November 10, 2016 Hey, all! Thanks for the renewed interest in this project. Here's the long overdue update: I recently got married and moved, and my new house had to accommodate both my stuff and my wife's, so the basement area which I plan on converting into my TI lab still hasn't been set up yet. However, this project is still alive and well in my head. I am toying with the idea of building a replacement PEB interface card. I am also well into the final stages of designing a way to connect the PEB to the TI using an ordinary 40-pin IDE hard drive ribbon cable. (Yes, I know that's not enough pins, I'm using some clever techniques to make it work.) The ultimate plan is to be able to buy an off-the-shelf 3-foot hard drive cable and use it to connect your PEB. You can even get round IDE cables to make your desk less messy. So my thinking is this: the PEB-side connector card for this new interface doesn't need to be very big with today's modern chips, so there's enough room to relocate my Speech-to-PEB circuit to this new card. In other words, the new TI-to-PEB connection card would have an optional card edge connector where you could stick a speech synth, if you had one. So it'd kill two birds with one stone. How's that sound? Would using a standard IDE cable be better for the PEB? And having the connection card pulling double duty with the Speech Synth to save PEB slots as well? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 I'd like to see an adaptor that is not proprietary to the ide cable alone. Maybe a standard passthrough connection as well for a 32k memory expansion. I'm working things out on paper and was planning to make a 3d model mock up of something I have in mind. Nothing as dramatic as changing the cable. More so a mini backplane that can take a series siren speech synth inserted vertically as well a a/v adapter fir the existing peb interface to be connected vertically (on its side, and continue with a pass through for the 32k side cart. I'll try to doodle something shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 /me still wants his SS in the PEB 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Hey, all! Thanks for the renewed interest in this project. Here's the long overdue update: I recently got married and moved, and my new house had to accommodate both my stuff and my wife's, so the basement area which I plan on converting into my TI lab still hasn't been set up yet. However, this project is still alive and well in my head. I am toying with the idea of building a replacement PEB interface card. I am also well into the final stages of designing a way to connect the PEB to the TI using an ordinary 40-pin IDE hard drive ribbon cable. (Yes, I know that's not enough pins, I'm using some clever techniques to make it work.) The ultimate plan is to be able to buy an off-the-shelf 3-foot hard drive cable and use it to connect your PEB. You can even get round IDE cables to make your desk less messy. So my thinking is this: the PEB-side connector card for this new interface doesn't need to be very big with today's modern chips, so there's enough room to relocate my Speech-to-PEB circuit to this new card. In other words, the new TI-to-PEB connection card would have an optional card edge connector where you could stick a speech synth, if you had one. So it'd kill two birds with one stone. How's that sound? Would using a standard IDE cable be better for the PEB? And having the connection card pulling double duty with the Speech Synth to save PEB slots as well? Very nice idea Greg! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 /me still wants his SS in the PEB /me2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 I recently got married Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregallenwarner Posted November 11, 2016 Author Share Posted November 11, 2016 Congratulations! Thanks, Ω! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 /me still wants his SS in the PEB http://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/speech.htm#in%20PEbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Sorry for the necrobump, but did anything ever come out of this project? Is there a speech synthesizer in the PEB solution yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 There is the RAVE speech card - I have one in my PEB. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Tempest said: Sorry for the necrobump, but did anything ever come out of this project? Is there a speech synthesizer in the PEB solution yet? I've not seen hide nor hair of Mr. Warner online in years. I think he abandoned the project due to some incompatibility with the Geneve, although the prototype worked just fine on a regular TI. I also think there were layoffs where he worked, IIRC he got married, and then life took him down another path. Now, you will have to confirm this with @Ksarul but I seem to remember him getting his hands on one of the prototypes. So, if anyone could revive this project it could be him (if there is enough interest), but with things not yet made, the wait could be longer than what you want. Now if you are willing to wait almost as long, the CorComp Triple Tech Card is one solution, but those suckers are rare. It took me over a year before I was able to obtain one one. Edited January 30, 2021 by Omega-TI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, atrax27407 said: There is the RAVE speech card - I have one in my PEB. But that's not a new card right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 no nothing rave speech is old, only a few around these days .. have you read the FAQ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 6 hours ago, Tempest said: Sorry for the necrobump, but did anything ever come out of this project? Is there a speech synthesizer in the PEB solution yet? I have one I've been working on off and on, but it has been a backburner project. I need to make a couple of test boards using my laest layout to see if the changes I've made cleared the bugs in my first iteration test boards. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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