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 at sunset.net > >To: igueths at comcast.net,"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at 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,