Re: Alien Group card?

[mikeford@socal.rr.com (Mike Ford)]

In article <20000515025656.01786.00002500@ng-fl1.aol.com>, mjmahon@aol.com
(Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

> >>Card 1
> >>Component Side DC782 ISS 1 REV A, Eprom with blue dot over window, 22 pin
> >>dip SC-01-A P8229 5145X, potentiometer, two 2 pin headers.
> >>
> >>REV A, C 1982 Alien Group, Solder Side DC782 ISS 1

> And the SC-01-A is a phoneme speech synthesizer chip,
> so this is certainly a speech synth board.
> 
> The pot is the volume or pitch control (I'd bet
> pitch).
> With any luch the EPROM contains a text-to-speech algorithm.
> I'd try hooking up a speaker to each of the two-pin headers in turn.
> One is the speaker output, and the other is for attaching the Apple speaker
> output,
> so that a single speaker, like the one in the Apple, can serve for both
> outputs.
> 
> Then try a PR#s, where the board is in slot s, and type in something and see
> what it says!  ;-)

Thanks I'll give that a try, and it does sound "likely" as it is from the
same batch of cards as the Jostens Learning Systems cards. Maybe from some
kind of speech lab?