I used the c64 myself, my brother had one, and although I don't
remember what the name of the speech synthesizer was called, I do
remember that it cost 60 bucks, and came on a cartridge, so you had
to plug the cartridge into the keyboard, then anything that came up
on the screen would talk, as long as it was text. That's where I
started playing the infocom games. It was a very robotic sounding
voice, and I know we had to buy at least two of them before the c64
finally gave up the ghost, and we switched over to a goold old PC XT
machine put out by ids which actually ran an necv20 cpu, which
incorporated an 80186 commandset, so it ran about 50 percent faster
than a standard xt, and it also had a turbo mode which would double
it's speed from 4.77 mhz to over 8mhz, making it quite speedy for
it's time (circa 1986) It even was able to run (some) 286 specific
software, which allowed me to use it long after everyone had given up
on their old xts, and moved on. I think it was somewhere around 1990
or 91 before I actually took the plunge and purchased a 286 machine
which only ran at 12 MHZ. :)
Quite the excellent little of piece of hardware that xt compatible was.
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