On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 6:01 PM Jim Brain via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: I have several vintage speech ICs, but not that one. -ethan

Hi, On 2/13/21 9:15 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: BG Micro sold a board called I believe the CompuTalker, with the SP0256A-AL2 and CTS256AL2/P pair, like the ICs Radio Shack sold. I have one of these boards sitting in front of me that I recently mounted in a nice case with power supply. Mine had some leaky electrolytic caps, but fortunately the damage was minimal and easily fixed. I found reference to it in this posting here: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/comp.sys.tandy/c/X_6fSse6As4 I've temporarily (please? save these if you want them) copied what I could find in terms of documentation and schematics for these ICs here: http://files.markgthomas.com/dl/SP0256-speech-IC-board/ Photos of mine are included. Mark -- Mark G Thomas <Mark at Misty.com>, KC3DRE

On 2/13/2021 3:13 AM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Digitalker 54104 IC Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 22:02:20 -0600 From: Jim Brain <brain at jbrain.com> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> I suspect the answer to question #1 is no, but thought I would ask. 1) Anyone happen to have a known working Digitalker 54104 IC they are looking to trade for some cash that does not involve me selling an arm or a leg :-)? 2) Barring that, anyone have a known working Digitalker-based unit that might be able to pop in a suspected non working Digitalker IC and test? I have a Jameco (yep, the parts firm) manufactured Digitalker unit here called the JE-520 that is my original unit.? It suffered some ROM bit rot long ago and was not working, but I acquired the ROMs a while back to repair the unit. Now, though, as I pull it out for another project, it seems to be misbehaving.? It's like "address bit 1" on the input commands is acting up.? For instance, word 48 is "zero", and 49 is "one", but zero will be followed by "three" and then "zero" and then "three" as one sends values 48,49,50,51 to the unit.? I'm working to confirm the bit 1 on the cable to the PC is not bad, but initial efforts point to it being the IC. Jim -- Jim Brain brain at jbrain.com www.jbrain.com -- Jim Brain brain at jbrain.com www.jbrain.com