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Anne Barela
Personal blog · 21stdigitalhome.blogspot.comhardware
Anne Barela writes The 21st Century Digital Home, a personal blog at 21stdigitalhome.blogspot.com about hardware. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Buying an Old IBM PC or Compatible on eBay or in Person: Tips”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links this blog's 2013 post on the VCP200 voice recognition chip, a Radio Shack-era device built on an M6804 microcontroller. The comment does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Anne Barela's posts on electronics, including vintage, modern, and Internet of Things projects.
Most-linked posts?
- Buying an Old IBM PC or Compatible on eBay or in Person: Tips2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-11
What Hacker News says?
I wonder how this performs compared to the "voice recognition" VCP200 chip sold by Radio Shack in the eighties (maybe early nineties?). https://21stdigitalhome.blogspot.com/2013/06/vcp200-voice-re... Also be interesting to know if that Voice Control Products ever had a real design win. I gather the VCP200 was a mask-programmed M6804 microcontroller. The M6804 was a strange and obscure beast, apparently a cost-reduce…
Comment linking /2013/06/vcp200-voice-recognition-ic.html
on “Simple Speech-to-Text on the '10 Cents' CH32V003 Microcontroller”Submitted Buying an Old IBM PC or Compatible on eBay or in Person: Tips as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IBM 5170 PC/at Upgrades as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Buying an Old IBM PC or Compatible on eBay or in Person – Tips as a story · 1 points
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