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   cybernesto to Jayson Smith   
   Re: Looking for a specific Echo Plus dis   
   28 Jan 22 15:56:04   
   
   From: cybernesto@macgui.com   
      
   Jayson Smith wrote:   
   > Hi,   
   >   
   > When we first got our Apple IIe in 1987 we had a disk which probably   
   > came with our Echo II Plus card, though I'm not sure. It booted into   
   > ProDOS, and had a few programs on it, one of which used the Mockingboard   
   > support on the Echo to play four very short songs (Camptown Races,   
   > Sidewalks of New York, Oh! Susanna, and Way Down Upon the Swanee River).   
   > It also had a spelling game that used pre-recorded LPC speech samples   
   > and played some of those little jingles when you spelled a word correctly.   
   >   
      
   Hi Jayson,   
      
   I have the mono version of the Echo+. It came with two disks that included   
   among others a sound program that could play tunes based on chords and notes   
   written in an AppleSoft string. It only included two sample songs: Yesterday   
   and Yankee Doodle (with a gunshot at the end)   
   A friend has the stereo version and his card came with only one two-sided   
   disk. There the SW was more graphics oriented, similar to the one that was   
   used for the Cricket! and included the same functionalities except for the   
   clock. The spelling test there has some short musical interludes. I think   
   the songs are indeed the ones you mentioned.   
   I uploaded the disk images some time ago to archive.org. See   
   https://archive.org/details/StreetElectronicsEcho and check ECHO+_1.DSK   
      
   best regards,   
      
   cybernesto   
      
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