voice synthesizer

[Bob Gonsalves]

>    I picked up a rather interesting item about a year ago at an 
>estate sale.  The
>person who passed away was really into electronics.  I puchased an 
>item that he must
>have purchased sometime around 1960.  An official Bell Labs voice synthesis
>experimenters kit.  This thing looks like it was intended for either 
>high school, or
>posibly undergrad college students.  All the ciruits are built using 
>LC filters and
>point contact germanium transistors.  I will have to go through the 
>book that came
>with it and see if there is anything that might be useful.


If this is the same item I'm thinking of, it possibly came out later 
than than as I recall having one in the 1980's. It does look really 
retro - maybe I got it at a garage sale or something.... The "circuit 
board" is the box it came in, with spring loaded terminals stuck 
through, battery power and a buzz source. I seem to recall adding in 
CD4066 switches to play around with the formants under computer 
(Altair 680 !) control.

-Bob Gonsalves http://www.pinknoiz.com/