Apple ][ boards (mostly

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Tony Duell wrote:

> > > 2 off Communication Board. These aapear to the board Sellam was
> > > mentioning. 6850 + TTL + P2 PROM + 8304.
> >
> > Somewhat rare.  At least they were hard to come by when I was looking for
>
> You mean the speech boards are more common? I am suprised :-)

No, but I don't imagine a whole lot of these boards were sold, or if they
were they just aren't out there.  I've gone through a lot of scrapped
Apple ]['s and have found many stashes of Apple ][ boards and have never
once come across one.  The one I had was, I think, one that I got when I
bought my first Apple ][+ back in 1984.

> > Most likely.  Heuristics made speech recognition stuff in the late 1970s
> > and early 1980s.  I have a Heuristics speech recognition board (large,
> > mounted in a hard-shell portable carrying case) with a serial port so it
> > can be interfaced to any computer with an RS232 port.  Circa early 1980s.
>
> Yes, I think I have one of their S100 boards somewhere, but it would take
> some finding....

Me too.

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