The following link has some information on the SPO-256 chip including PDF's
of the GI and Tandy spec sheets.

Good Luck,
Preston

http://www.esi.us.es/~melus/gwlhw0j.html

-----Original Message-----
From: James Cameron [mailto:quozl@us.netrek.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 6:56 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Text to Speech


On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:09:13AM -0700, Keith Causey wrote:
> Where did you find the SPO-256 and CTS-256 chipset?

I'll chip in (!) here and mention that Radio Shack was selling these
chipsets many years ago.  I even went and bought one.

I could never get it to work reliably over the serial interface because
it did not generate XON/XOFF properly.  I remember fiddling with it for
long hours, and I found that it generated an XON character for every
character you sent to it, until some internal buffer was full, then it
stopped sending XON.

Does anyone have a data sheet on these chips?  I was following Radio
Shack's experimenter's data sheet, which may have been abbreviated.

I'd love to get this thing working.

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