GdB said:
This is a text to speech processor, introduced somewhere 1980's...
Anyone who knows of a place were I could get this one (just for fun),
preferrably in Western Europe?
Cheers,
George
Ask around in the BBC-B/arcimedes circles, in the dark
ages I equipped a BBc-B with one, the computer had 2 slots
reserved for a speech chip(I think from Texas Instrumentst?)
and memorychip.
I stil regret my stupidity, selling the BBC-B.
If I can find out about it I will report back........
Ah!Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_LPC_Speech_Chips
shows:
1980 or 1981:
* TMS5220 (AKA CD2805E?): Improved version of the TMS5200,
pin but not function compatible(has new lpc tables and a
new chirp table); used on (later) Apple II Echo2 cards,
on the very last run of TI 99/4A speech modules, on the BBC Micro,
in Bally/Midway's Discs of TRON and NFL Football arcade games,
and in many Atari arcade games, including Star Wars, Firefox,
Paperboy, Return of the Jedi, Gauntlet, Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom, Road Runner, The Empire Strikes Back, 720°,
Gauntlet II, A.P.B., RoadBlasters, Vindicators Part II, and finally
Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.
The TMS5220 was also used on Venture Line's Looping and Sky Bumper,
Olympia's Portraits, and Exidy's Victory and Victor Banana arcade machines.
[7] Superseded by TMS5220C in 1983/1984.
That one(if you can find it) was fun
