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You bet! Yeah they are much cheaper than the ones on eBay. And it helps keep ARoD in business. I got mine in just a couple of days! Chris

Apple Rescue of Denver has DuoDisk cables on the cheap, I just bought one and it is of excellent quality. https://applerescueofdenver.com/products-page/apple-ii/drives-apple-ii/floppy-disk-drives-apple-ii/duodisk-drive-cable/ If you see David Lovett (Usagi Electric) out there at VCFSW, you...

Aha! OK. So the OP has two fancy devices on that unit! Very cool.

This is a Microstand Touch Top II gaming device. It was designed to make the Apple II more like an arcade game setup. Basically a fancy joystick. More information...

It doesn't arbitrarily speak, as I recall. You'll need to find some software packages that support it, or write programs of your own to utilize it. It *may* say something when you initially power on the machine if you've got the volume turned up. I can't recall. The white wire connects to the...

Ah that's not necessary, that's your business. Nice catch though, I'm sure you'll have fun with it. I'm slowly putting mine back together (monitor, keyboard, mouse), and I have a Floppy EMU to use with it as well. I'll try and find period correct disk drives for it at some point down the road...

It's a pretty neat system. I collect devices that use TI speech, just a nostalgia thing. There were a lot of devices that used it across many disciplines, including industrial systems, radio control systems, clocks, etc. My latest TI speech acquisition is a RadioShack VoxClock 3. Had to do...

That is unquestionably a ROM 3 unit. As was previously said - socketed battery, and no pads for the Apple IIe style keboard or numeric keypad. It has 1MB fast RAM on board, and a 256k ROM. A significant part of the tools for GS/OS are in ROM on this machine, allowing it to boot and run somewhat...

It's definitely an Echo series speech synthesizer card, using Texas Instruments LPC speech. The TI chip labeled "ECHO-2" is the actual speech chip. There were several versions of the "Echo" card made, this is either just one of them, or a private-labeled version. I don't know - that's a guess...

Curious what Goodwill was asking for it and what you paid, if I may?

That board is on the verge of what I would bother spending my time on, but you'd be surprised how resilient some of these things can be. Some time with the appropriate chemicals and a toothbrush could probably clean that up, and you might have success. If it were me, I'd at least take a whack...