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Texas Instruments Teddy Touch & Tell
Date of introduction: | 1993 | Display technology: | n.a. |
New price: | $38.25 (1992) Libraries: $17.95 |
Display size: | |
Size: | 13.5" x 12.0" x 3.7" | ||
Weight: | 2 pounds 5 ounces | Serial No: | |
Batteries: | 4*AA cells | Date of manufacture: | wk 32 year 1993 |
AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | USA | |
Precision: | Integrated circuits: | TSP50C11 (CSM11163) Modules: |
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Memories: | |||
Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner | |
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The
cute Teddy Touch & Tell continues the ideas of the previous Touch & Tell
and the wonderful Touch & Discover. The idea of the product is simple:
Switch the game on and wait for the instruction. The only thing you need is your
fingertip.
This educational toys addresses children aged 2-5 years and
introduces the Alphabet, Numbers, Colors, Animals, Music and a lot of other
interesting things with a friendly voice.
Dismantling
this Teddy Touch & Tell manufactured in
August 1993 by Texas Instruments in the United States reveals a technology very similar to the various Touch
& Talkies and even simpler than the
previous Touch & Discover.
The
design of the Teddy Touch & Tell is centered around
a TSP50C11 Voice Synthesis Processor (VSP) and makes use of just two Integrated
Circuits:
• TSP50C11/CSM11163: TSP50C50 VSP (Voice Synthesis Processor) with 8-bit microcontroller and
16k Bytes Mask ROM for both program and voice and
128 Bytes + 16 Nibbles RAM • 74HC138: 3-to-8 Decoder/Demultiplexer to scan the keyboard |
The Teddy Touch & Tell uses exchangeable speech ROMs in an
expansion port. This gives you access to other game-pictures than the provided Bluish
Purple ones. Three different color-coded Teddy Touch & Tell Cartridges are known :
Green,
Blue, and Reddish Purple.
(Info provided by Hallvard Tangeraas, Norway - Thanks!)
In Germany this toy was sold as "Teddy, der sprechende
Bär" (Teddy - The Speaking Bear) and in France as "Le Petit Ours
Magique" (The Small Magic Bear) with adopted voices.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, December 15, 2001. No reprints without written permission.