I was all on my own at the museum today apart from the builders working on the new displays. So it gave me a chance to have a go on DECTalk (a speech synthesis computer) and make it say funny things, I’m not going to use it for much but it was quite good fun and made it do what I needed it to do. I got straight, to work first up was the MSX HX-10 which is lovely it has the most deep bass sound every and much like the Elliot 803 it can cut through alot of other computers sounds. Sadly the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A I was hoping to work on was unresponsive, but it looked amazing, shiny silver thing. I hope it can be repaired. Also the Acorn Atom was without power. So I redid some of the BBC Micro and much to my amusement it was tuned differently to the day before? I also managed to get some 5″ floppy disks formtted, not sure if I should be so excited about that but I am. I also got to document the IBM 029 Keypunch which is turning out to be responsible for a large part of the percussion throughout “Obsolete?”.