From: B_Plenge@NoSpam.com   
      
   Mike Y wrote:   
   >  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> It also didn't support the Model-III, if I recall correctly, and   
   >> even getting it to work under Model-I Disk BASIC required some   
   >> modification of the application programs due to differences between   
   >> Level-II and Disk-BASIC implementations of the USR function.   
   >   
   > If I remember correctly it was completely port mapped, not memory   
   > mapped, and there was a hack for it to work on the Model III (and   
   > even the Model II if you really futzed with it) but it died pretty   
   > quickly It was a neat toy, but the vocabulary was just so limited it   
   > was just that, a neat toy.  There wasn't anything practical for it,   
   > unless you   
   > did it yourself.  I don't believe any hacks for platforms other than   
   > the Model I ever made it out of Ft Worth, and I don't recall ever   
   > seeing   
   > one in a magazine.   
   >   
   > I saw a lot of hacks for the synthesizer though.  That was neat.   
   > There was supposedly a hack to make it work on an I/O interface, but   
   > then   
   > the SSI part became available in a single chip that sounded better.   
   >   
   > Mike   
      
   I remember buying a VS-100 speech synthesizer for my model 4, it too was   
   port mapped, it used 2 ports, I don't recall what numbers, but one was an   
   index port and the other for writing the data.  For the first few weeks it   
   was the coolest thing in the world, after that I just found it annoying and   
   never used it.   
      
      
   Best,   
   Bill   
      
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