Re: Sega Vector Speech Chips

On Oct 13, 9:25pm, Frank Palazzolo wrote:
> Subject: Sega Vector Speech Chips
>
> Just wanted to let you all know, I'm hoping to be in touch
> with the guy who designed the Mattel Intellivoice module shortly,
> which used a chip very similar to the Sega vector games, (as Clay
> pointed out a while ago.)
>
> I'm hoping that I can get some info on the SP0250. I'm starting to
> think that it might be possible to build a SP0250 replacement with
> an SP0256 and something to do the parallel to serial conversion.
> Granted, this chip is also obsolete also, but there are still people
> selling them for about $5, at least. Didn't someone have a bunch of
> Sega speech boards with missing SP0250's... ?

That would be me :-)

An operator I visit every so often apparently has a stash of these, but I have
no idea what price range he's looking for.

I also have an abundance of CPU boards for those of you who want to try out
Clay's board, but don't want to endanger your original CPU board (not that
anything Clay made would ever cause a CPU to fail ;-) ;-))

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Received on Tue Oct 14 06:25:01 1997