From: gatewa...@yahoo.com   
      
   Hi,   
   I've had an Echo II speech synthesizer card installed in my Apple II+ for a   
   while and until now it was working fine. It's been a while since I used it,   
   and a couple of days ago I wanted to play around with it (make the computer   
   say "Do you want to play a    
   game?" like in the movie "Wargames", HA!).  But when I tried to run the   
   Textalker program on the disk, the computer keeps freezing up on the copyright   
   screen. It doesn't respond to any keys or even the reset button. I have to   
   turn off the computer and    
   restart it.   
      
   The disk is not an original that came with the card. I bought the card on eBay   
   a couple of years ago and it came with a disk that looks like someone just   
   copied at some point. But it was working fine until now. I also made a backup   
   copy of the disk. The    
   disk reads fine, but the card itself doesn't seem to be doing anything.   
      
   I've opened the computer and cleaned it, and added cards, etc since I last   
   used the Echo II. I was always very careful and I don't THINK I could have   
   damaged it. All the other cards are working fine. Is it possible the ECHO II   
   has to be in a specific    
   slot to work? Or could it be having some kind of conflict with another card or   
   something? I've tried moving it to a different slot but still can't get it to   
   work. The card itself looks in perfect condition, no bad traces or   
   contacts,etc.   
      
   Here are the cards I have installed:   
   Slot 0: Language Card   
   Slot 1: Super Serial Card   
   Slot 2: Grappler printer card (installed but not connects to a printer)   
   Slot 3: "Wizard-80" 80 column card   
   Slot 4: empty   
   Slot 5: ECHO II card   
   Slot 6: disk drive controller card   
      
   I feel like I'm missing something. It seems like when I first got the card I   
   had trouble getting it to work at first then too, but I don't remember.   
      
   I'd greatly appreciate any help!   
   -Chris   
      
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