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OCR: About Macintalk II and Macintalk Pro... Deja Vu All Over Again On the day the Macintosh was first introduced in 1984 one of Steven Jobs' hig priorities was to have the Macintosh literally introduce itself, speaking its own name as well as his. For that (primarily marketing) reason Apple cont tracted W some outside programmers to develop the oriqinal Macintalk. According to Mac legend, the two programmers became disenchanted with Apl and eventually disappeared with the source code .0 the Macintalk software le Apple's enqineers scrambling to support the product. Converting any arbitrary text string to the spoken word is no mean feat howev and with no source code Apple's gurus could not keep Macintalk compatible the ever changing world JO sys tem software In early 1989 Apple moved Macin on to ...