Hai Got hold of a sygmatics elite bi-lingual language teacher-translator from a boot sale i opened it up an there is over 7 microchips in it it uses i think over three lpc chips+speech roms including one wierd 8 bit microcontroler chip
that chip is white with a gold cover on top and looks just like a russian microsytems 8 bit microcoder chip What I find wierd is that it is dated from 1975 and i think it was made for colleges for language courses does that mean that it was the first product to use linear predictive coding? sounds alot like a mix of a TI touch an tell mixed with a tsi speech plus calculator with a dash of intellivision speech synthesizers 4 bit voice quality. its built like a tank
the case is beutuiful cream white with computer key buttons and seems to have recycled transistors capacitorts and ics
Is it rare at all and if it is should i circuit bend it? have you ever heard of one if so say so ok
Thankyou please
mr ibrahiem
It does sound pretty rare. It would be a shame to hack it up without making sure it's not something really unusual and worth keeping.
I agree with you I have opened it up and it had a primary bopard and a secondary inflection control board I bent it but with a screwdriver and I found some cool glitches in it like there is three lpc chips each one had a different language in it but you can only use one at a time well you can disable the steppingfilter chip and you can mess about with the chip on the greenboard on the top left by the way this isnt a microcontroller this is a subtractive speech synthesis chip SSI-t535aa Zilog(company that made it same as in old soviet commodore or aplle macintosh computer clones) i have looked al over the net and its mentioned nowhere and i have had a talk with other circuit benders and they know of no such thing as mine soo.....it actualy may be only the only example in britain or europe
I have no idea how much it's worth but it sounds really rare.
I know loads of people who would kill for this though (including me).
Be careful with it for god sakes! I would suggest only doing safe bends that you know wont fry it.
I have a picture of a similar if not same device from around 1975 I ts not mine but it is in a soviet museum and is quoted as bieng one of the first speech synths to use pre coded liner matrix semi predictive coding with....editable parameters . it is not the first commecial synth to use speech synthesis that title is not held by the speak and spell but the TSI speech plus Talking calculator back in 1976 i think .but the speak is still the most popular so eh any ways i tookit a part and the glitches well what can i say ........... im speechless oh idont know how to insert an image could someone help me with that please
use the little icon of an image and paste the url of the picture in between the two sets of square brackets
or just paste a link to it i just want to see it :)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Elektronika_UK-001.jpg
i have the link to the photo...keep in mind though its not exactly the same as this but very similar
Did the link work ? have you seen the photo?
Bear in mind its not exactly the same as this but close
I decided to not bend it
I kepping it on shelf displaying table for perminent displays
I would have bent it but i not going to now I nkow how rare it is I is VERRY BIG and HEAVY