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I think it actualy had it's own interface card that you had to put in 
the machine and hook the device to it.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 03:24:52PM 
-0500, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think it plubbed into the VGA port on an existing video card.  It must have done something like ocr on the displayed stuff?
> 
> -Dave
> 
> 
> Gregory Nowak writes:
>  > Interesting. How did this synth interface with the system, did it act as a video card, did it plug into the vga port of an existing video card?
>  > 
>  > Greg
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > > ----- Original Message -----
>  > >From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid@sunset.net
>  > >To: igueths@comcast.net,"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>  > >Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:49:08 -0800
>  > >Subject: Re: talking bios?
>  > 
>  > >This project reminds me of the old Speaqualizer (possibly spelled
>  > >wrong) speech synthesizer.  The Speaqualizer was all hardware, so it
>  > >was capable of reading everything that showed up on a text screen,
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