The Only Talking EAS Endec: HollyAnne SAM HU961 (ShitBiscuit)
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11 responses to “The Only Talking EAS Endec: HollyAnne SAM HU961 (ShitBiscuit)”
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That makes sence. But it’s still a lot of money.
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Well the new ones are several thousand dollars. But, this isn’t consumer gear, this is intended for the broadcast world.
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$800? Holy cow that is a lot of money!
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32-bit units like mine are no longer supported, they don’t get any more updates and haven’t for a couple of years. But, stations with them were getting rid of them since they have to have compliant equipment, so I got mine for $300, compared to $800 on the low end for an Intel DASDEC II, or $3,000 for a new base model DASDEC-III
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But what is the difference between those? And have you noticed any problems with the lynex one?
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Yeah, the DASDEC is literally just a Linux PC with some extra bits tacked on. It’s not even a good Linux PC, most of the ones you’ll find are based on a Via Eden 32-bit X86 CPU running at 1.2 or 1.6 GHz, with 1GB of DDR2 RAM and a 64GB SSD. More modern ones are based on Intel 64-bit chips, but those are much more expensive
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Oh grate, I don’t know linex!
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There’s actually an EPROM in the unit marked "Speech V1.0." If I had an EPROM programmer I’d dump the chip contents to extract the samples, or maybe introduce some new samples.
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I got these units from eBay, and the Holly is fairly uncommon to find. A DASDEC you can typically find, but they’re a bit of a pain in the ass to get working the way you want it (to reset the password you have to connect a USB keyboard, hope they didn’t change the root password, and run a long ass Linux command. If it’s V4 firmware or higher local console access can’t happen.)
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Nice. Where did you get these unets? Where can you buy them?
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thats pretty cool, watched your 1 youtube video on this, and by the way, it uses lpc based tts, in other words, human based tts samples, and I know about the zx80 and zx81 computers, I’m a big tech geek its not even funny
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