Date   : Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:29:46 +0100
From   : John Simpson <Simpson.J@...>
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP URGENTLY

> >Maybe i can be cheeky and ask you to help me... i work in a school and
have
> >been asked to look in every BBC on site for a speech chip...they have
kindly
> >narrowed it down and told me they didn't ever have one in a BBC master..

> I'm not too sure about the speech chip.  Is this the Acorn one?  If so,
> I thought this was usually plugged in to the socket on the right hand
> side of BBC model A and B keyboards (the socket would be covered by a
> layer of plastic if it had never been used).  This socket doesn't exist
> on BBC Masters.  I don't know if this chip could be plugged in
> internally, or how it would be marked to differentiate it from other ROM
> chips, but I would expect the *HELP command to list it if present.

I've never seen a speech chip (they weren't very popular) but I do recall
that whole spoken words were stored on something called a PHROM (PHrase
ROM). It would be necessary to have at least one of these, and they would be
found in the slots next to where you have already found the DFS ROM. 

There has to be some other sort of hardware to read these ROMS - this would
be the speech chip itself I presume. I have no idea where this would fit.

john