Re: SP0250

At 03:17 PM 6/12/97 -0800, you wrote:
>>It was as Zonn said, the 256 is a formant synth based on the 250...
>
>I think the 256 is a Phoneme/Allophone synth. This was the one Radio Shack
>sold? I have an old 1987 "cross reference" from RS that has a bunch of
>SPO256 data in it, I'll bring that to work too... ;-)

It's the very same one. I think I still have one wired up on a perf board
stashed somewhere in my garage. I got it to say "Gorvian Romotz Addack!
Addack!" which is pretty similar to, but not identical to the way "Gorf"
sounded. Gorf used the Silicon Systems phoneme chip (I think) which was a
nicer sounding chip.

I also wrote a Text to Speech conversion routine for the thing, which would
have all the information on programming the chip (the SP0256, not the
SP0250). But alas it was written in 6800 assembly for a 6800 based computer
and it's doubtful I could ever read those disks again.

-Zonn
Received on Thu Jun 12 15:33:12 1997