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Cluster adapter

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 1:58 pm
by KenG
I was organizing my collection and found a box with a speech adapter and a cluster adapter. There were two disks with the speech adapter, so I think I am OK there. Is there a way to bridge the cluster adapter to modern Ethernet? If not, I guess it will just be an unused part of my collection.

Re: Cluster adapter

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 2:24 pm
by Trixter
It would be very difficult to bridge the cluster adapter to modern standards, and to date nobody has looked into it.

Could you make disk images of the Speech disks you received? I have several loose sidecars, and I put a lot of tech info and IBM internal programs up at ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/IBM/PCjr/speech/ but I don't think the actual speech disks that came with it were archived. I'd be happy to mirror them at that FTP site if someone can produce image dumps of the disks.

Re: Cluster adapter

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 7:10 pm
by KenG
OK, I think they are copies of the original disks. I will try to get the images done over the next couple of days.

Re: Cluster adapter

Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 10:36 am
by KenG
I just looked at the disks I have. They are the PC Enterprises Make Talk Software and Talk Sound Files. Do you already have these? If not I will image them.

Re: Cluster adapter

Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 11:02 am
by Trixter
I believe I have them, but mine were from copied diskettes -- if you have known good disks, an extra set of data wouldn't hurt.