That speech card seems to be the most unusual thing about the machine, maybe assistive technology for blind users? Impressive that it survived the capacitor exploding.
I wonder if there was some DOS driver already installed on the hard drive that allows "echo"ing text to a character device to make it say something - like he does at the end of this video, but unfortunately without an explanation of what the interface for that is.
edit: the longer video has a short bit at the very end where you can see some kind of menu system is launched from AUTOEXEC.BAT, with speech output. But it just cuts off after that - I'm a bit disappointed, since everything else is pretty much standard hardware for the time, while this card and the software supporting it is certainly rare, maybe even unique!
I watched the video and just seeing a machine that old just plugged in without checking the board was triggering then the explosion of a cap for the views was obvious. Nice restoration overall but plugging it in to film a cap exploding is bad taste I think.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 25.0 ms ] threadI wonder if there was some DOS driver already installed on the hard drive that allows "echo"ing text to a character device to make it say something - like he does at the end of this video, but unfortunately without an explanation of what the interface for that is.
edit: the longer video has a short bit at the very end where you can see some kind of menu system is launched from AUTOEXEC.BAT, with speech output. But it just cuts off after that - I'm a bit disappointed, since everything else is pretty much standard hardware for the time, while this card and the software supporting it is certainly rare, maybe even unique!