Picsters: It may have been a SpeechThing ( Covox ) or SoundJr ( SiliconSoft, Inc. - www.siliconsoft.com ) and First Byte or ? phoneme based text-to-speech software. These parallel port DACs, Macs and Amigas were used in a number of movies in the mid-eighties before Win 3.1 and SoundBlaster! - Wayne Foletta BMI - Santa Clara