Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 17, 1982

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Computer: Attention. You have just interfaced with the PC 1200-II... Rev. Sloan: Good lord! What's that? Man: The speech synthesis module. Computer: I have 16k bytes ram, built-in basic. 3 tones from 110 hz to... Rev. Sloan: How do I turn it off? It's sort of rattling me. Man: Maybe you need something more compatible. We do have a softer line of software for the PC 1200-II. Let's try using the new "Mellowspeak" disk... Computer: Hey, babe! Hope you're having a nice day! Let's go for it! Rev. Sloan: Now, that's more like it!