Date : Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:17:14 +0100
From : Philip Blundell <pb@...>
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP URGENTLY
>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.
The speech processor itself goes into the socket to the left of the disk
controller, near the keyboard cable. I think phrase ROMs plug into the
keyboard; they're not standard parallel ROMs, but serial devices.
p.