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Texas Instruments La Lecture Magique

Date of introduction:	1988	Display technology:	n.a.
New price:		Display size:
Size:	12.0" x 21.5" x 1.7"
Weight:	2 pounds 13 ounces	Serial No:
Batteries:	4*AA cells	Date of manufacture:	wk 07 year 1991
AC-Adapter:		Origin of manufacture:	USA
Precision:		Integrated circuits:	TSP50C42 (CSM42025), TSP60C19 (CMM19015), TSP60C19 (CMM19019)
Memories:
Program steps:		Courtesy of:	Joerg Woerner
		Download manual:	(FR: 9.3M Bytes)

Nothing else than the French edition of the Super Speak & Read and the Ready...Set...Read! game.

The picture on the left side displays the game in the closed state. Find a picture of the opened toy here.

Dismantling the featured La Lecture Magique manufactured in February 1991 by Texas Instruments in the United States reveals a very efficient internal construction centered around a TSP50C4X Speech Synthesizer and supported with two TSP60C19 Speech-ROMs compared to the TSP60C80 located in the original Ready...Set...Read!.

We located on the double-sided printed circuit board (PCB) three Integrated Circuits:

• TSP50C42/CSM42025: TSP50C50 VSP (Voice Synthesis Processor) with 8-bit microcontroller and 8k Bytes Mask ROM for both program and voice and 128 Bytes + 16 Nibbles RAM
• TSP60C19/CMM19015: VSM (Voice Synthesis Memory) with 256k Bits
• TSP60C19/CMM19019: VSM (Voice Synthesis Memory) with 256k Bits

The La Lecture Magique is featured in the Texas Instruments France SA leaflet Magiques et Intelligents dated 1991.

Three different modules with a total of 18 booklets are known:

Name	Books	Words	Description	Module	Word List
Basic set (blue)
Module d'Extension No1 (orange)	8..12		8: La course 9: Les moutons musiciens 10: Grand-mère 11: Amandine est malade 12: Boucle d'Or
Reading Fun 2 Expansion Pack (purple)

If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.