Old TI analog sound chip; info?

From: Bill Allen Jr <n8uhn_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Dec 18 00:58:15 2002

Was'nt the "spo256" a ti voice synth chip or was it a
 gi product.

i do remember when radio shack carried the spo256 and
the companion text to speech chip (cannot remember the
part number for that chip)

Bill.


Message: 42
From: "Davison, Lee"
<Lee.Davison_at_merlincommunications.com>
To: "'cctalk_at_classiccmp.org'" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: Old TI analog sound chip; info?
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:02:10 -0000
Reply-To: cctech_at_classiccmp.org


> I'm looking for the documentation for the olde TI
analog
> sound chip; this dates back to the late 70's early
80's if
> my memory serves me correctly. I don't even
remember the
> part number. AFAIK, it had some kind of "I2L" (I
squared
> el) technology or somesuch, and it was mostly
analog, with
> some digital control (but nothing like a DSP or
midi).

> Anyone recall this chip? Anyone have the datasheet
for
> it online or willing to scan it in?

SN76477N,
http://rgvac.978.org/chips/sn76477datasheet.pdf

> Background: I remember playing with it a *long*
time ago,
> and wanted to model it in software :-)

I remember it well, it was the canine gonads until the
AY3-8910
and it's ilk appeared.

Cheers,
        Lee.


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