Re: What's an "Echo II" card?

[rayr@HiWAAY.net (Raymon P. Ratte)]

TTSH35A@prodigy.com (Phil Abel) wrote:
>Amongst the various cards in a IIe I acquired at a university surplus
>auction this summer was an "Echo II" sound board of some sort? The
>copyright printed on the thing was like 1981 or 1982 if memory serves, so
>it's obviously a relic. I'm just curious as to what it was used for and
>what applications (games) supported the thing? Couldn't get a peep out of
>the thing when I hooked it up, and none of the games I tried would do
>anything with it...
>
	Phil did you get the speaker with volume control too?  The Echo manual lists these parts:
		An Echo II circuit board
		A speaker with volume control
		The manual
		Mounting hardware
		One diskette
		A speaker "jumper" wire
	The "jumper" wire is important because it redirects you normal speaker sound to the included
speaker. The software includes Text-to-speech program which enables your Apple to speak anything you can
spell in a robotic, male voice or a high quality, low data rate female voice, and an extremely high quality
digitized voice (all this is straight from the manual.).
RayR