Category Archives: Vintage

SP0256-AL2 Speech Synthesis from the 1980’s

So back in the mid-1980’s,  I came across the SP0256 Narrator Speech Processor from Radio Shack. The chip was manufactured by General Instruments or more specifically General Instruments Microelectronics.  The company had a number of 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers, along with some ROM, EAROM (electrically alterable ROM), and telecommunications chips that were spun into a division called Microchip.  […]

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