On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 02:04 -0500, M H Stein wrote:
Keep in mind that the SP0256 is only an allophone
generator; although there
were expansion ROMs available, for text-to-speech you needed something like
the CTS256-AL2, which was a PIC (yes, GI made PICs in the '70s!) programmed
PIC as is Arizona Microchip PIC, or PIC as in something else?
The former. I forget what the CTS256 'really' was, but it was pretty
clearly a programmed PIC.
The 1654 is a lot older than many people realise
-tony