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Re: What the heck is this????

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In article <WsyP9.191698$%k2.52112053@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Bryan Villados <news002@macgeek.org> wrote:
>I found this on Yahoo Japan earlier today:
>
>http://www.macgeek.org/temp/ssb-apple/image01.jpg
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>http://www.macgeek.org/temp/ssb-apple/image02.jpg
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>http://www.macgeek.org/temp/ssb-apple/image03.jpg
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>Anyone know what this is and does? The Japanese seller doesn't seem to know
>either. Looking at the photos, it seems to be some sort of sound card. It
>has an audio input port (left side of the card, top connector). Never seen
>this before.

The TMS5220 that's visible in the second image is a speech-synthesizer chip. 
It was used in a number of early speech-synthesis products, such as the
Speak 'n Spell and the speech synthesizer for the TI-99/4A.  This would
indicate that it's some sort of speech synthesizer card.  Hopefully the
disks and manual shown in the third image would have software to control the
card and programming info so you could write your own software for it.

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