I was going to upload the various man pages of 32/V so I'd have a 'nice' collection of them, and to help with my eventual conversion of the help text into RTF for a windows helpfile when I was reading through the number command...

http://gunkies.org/wiki/32v_1m_number


Number copies the standard input to the standard output, changing each decimal number to a fully spelled out version. Punctuation is added to make the output sound well when played through speak(1).

So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point?  Does anyone know how it worked?  Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it does seem very interesting...!

I wonder if this was the start of the UNIX/IVR relationship....?

Thanks!

Jason