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From: ccrawford@acb.org
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: a bit of trivia I found interesting
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:29:15 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212211528390.21433-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021221160207.GD6759@rednote.net>

I did not know that.  How wierd.  

- charlie Crawford.


On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Dave Hunt writes:
> > 
> > I have heard that DEC founder (Ken Olsen) was the model for dectalk.
> > Truth or yet another urban legend?:)
> > 
> The DEC Talk's inventor was Dr. Dennis Klatt. He would place radioactive
> pellets in the back of his moth and X-|ray himself speaking in order to
> better understand the formation of speech. From this he was able to
> model a synthesizer.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, it cost him his life from throat
> cancer.
> 
> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> 
> 
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Adam Myrow
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Adam Myrow
     ` Dave Hunt
       ` Glenn Ervin
         ` Dave Hunt
           ` shaun_oliver
       ` Janina Sajka
         ` shaun_oliver
         ` ccrawford [this message]
           ` Janina Sajka
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Dave Hunt
     ` Glenn Ervin
   ` Alex Snow
     ` a bit of trivia I found interesting and now Alex's situation Frank Carmickle
       ` Alex Snow
   ` a bit of trivia I found interesting Glenn Ervin
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Glenn Ervin
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Patrick Turnage
             ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Alex Snow
               ` Erik Heil
               ` Patrick Turnage
                 ` Janina Sajka
                   ` Gregory Nowak
                     ` Alex Snow
                       ` Gregory Nowak
                         ` Janina Sajka
               ` Gregory Nowak
                 ` Alex Snow
                   ` Gregory Nowak
                     ` kaare
                       ` dashielljt
                       ` Gregory Nowak
                         ` Richard Villa
                     ` Alex Snow
                     ` Richard Villa
                       ` dashielljt
                         ` Chuck Hallenbeck
                           ` Alex Snow
                   ` Buddy Brannan

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