Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Computer terminal in WarGames
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 9:47 PM Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
That is very much not a Votrax SC-01A. It's far too intelligible to be an SC-01A.
I'm almost certain that the WOPR's voice wasn't synthesized at all, and instead was made from modified voice recordings. -Alexander 'Z' Pierson
You can't be saying that movies aren't real, are you? *life belief system shattering sound* :-)
WOPR is real. I had one at Burger King last week. On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 10:03 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 9:47 PM Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
That is very much not a Votrax SC-01A. It's far too intelligible to be an SC-01A.
I'm almost certain that the WOPR's voice wasn't synthesized at all, and instead was made from modified voice recordings. -Alexander 'Z' Pierson
You can't be saying that movies aren't real, are you? *life belief system shattering sound* :-)
Wait what I thought this was a documentary about sentient computers of the 1980s… –Thomas F.
On Jun 14, 2018, at 10:03 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 9:47 PM Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
That is very much not a Votrax SC-01A. It's far too intelligible to be an SC-01A.
I'm almost certain that the WOPR's voice wasn't synthesized at all, and instead was made from modified voice recordings. -Alexander 'Z' Pierson
You can't be saying that movies aren't real, are you? *life belief system shattering sound* :-)
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