Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!caen!uwm.edu!rpi!ego From: ego@itsgw.rpi.edu (Erik G Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti Subject: Re: Card Wanted... Keywords: Pascal Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 05:50:42 GMT References: <*A+&HM*@rpi.edu> <4x2G_6rm@cs.psu.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: jec409.its.rpi.edu On the existence of speech add-ons: Yes, I've seen literature, too. (It was in with the TI-Writer source code which a former TI employee wanted to get rid of. Anyone want copies? Is TI eavesdropping?) It definitely said that there would be add-on speech expanders for the new speech synthesizer. Notice also that the speech board, at least the one I have, says "Rev J". Maybe they designed the plug out, that would have accepted add-ons. Look at the layout: two roms in front, piggybacked, just under that Pac-man hatch. Then there's that smooth plastic shelf that ends just above the last remaining piece of unetched PCB real estate. Suppose they could have altered the PCB design to efface the original endowment? Since the die molds for the plastic cases are among the most outrageously expensive items to be found in computer manufacturing lines, of course they would have preferred to just leave the useless Pac-man hatch on the device. Besides, it matches the decor of the console. And it gives you something to do while the assembler is executing. -- =======================+========================================= Erik G Olson "There was virtue in the world before there was orthodoxy in it." ego@pawl.rpi.edu --The Independent Whig