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Texas Instruments Touch & Discover
| Date of introduction: | 1987 | Display technology: | n.a. |
| New price: | $65.00 (1987) $46.75 (1992) Libraries: $19.95 |
Display size: | |
| Size: | 11.6" x 11.7" x
2.7" 295 x 298 x 69 mm3 |
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| Weight: | 30.9 ounces, 876 grams | Serial No: | |
| Batteries: | 4*AA cells | Date of manufacture: | wk 02 year 1990 |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | USA | |
| Precision: | Integrated circuits: | TSP50C42 (CSM42005), TSP60C19 (CMM19002) or TSP60C21 (CMM21002) or Module:TSP60C21 (CM21004) |
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| Memories: | |||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner | |
| Download leaflet: | 
(US: 1.1M Bytes) |
The
wonderful Touch & Discover game combines the position sensitive keyboard
design on the previous Touch & Tell with the enhanced speech synthesizer
technology of the Super Speak & Spell.
The idea of the product is simple:
Switch the game on and wait for the instructions. The only thing you need is your
fingertip.
Dismantling this Touch & Discover manufactured in January 1990 by Texas Instruments in the United States reveals a
very well engineered printed circuit board (PCB) with just two
Integrated Circuits:
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• TSP50C42/CSM42005: 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/CMM19002 or TSP60C21/CMM21002: VSM (Voice Synthesis Memory) with 256k Bits |
Forty entertaining, educational activities featuring favorite Walt Disney characters were available for the Touch & Discover educational product. Eight of these activities come with the Touch & Discover and thirty-two activities were available in two expansion packs:
| • New Discoveries • Advanced Discoveries |
Each expansion pack contains a cartridge and a set of
educational Disney picture panels.
The cartridge itself uses a Speech-ROM
TSP60C21 with a capacity of 256k Bits connected to the expansion port of the Touch & Discover.
The toy is intended for players ages 2 to 5.
Don't miss the rare Touch & Discover School Edition.
Few years later Texas Instruments introduced the smaller Teddy Touch & Tell.
Don't miss the El Super Libro
Mágico
with its wonderful Spanish language, the Italian speaking Super
Libro Parlante and the French speaking Le
Super Livre Magique.
List of all forty activities:
| Basic (Built In) |
Activity | New Discoveries | Activity | Advanced Discoveries | Activity |
| 1 | Alphabet (a-m) | 9 | Body Parts | 25 | Capital Letters: The Alphabet (A-M) |
| 2 | Alphabet (n-z) | 10 | Face Parts | 26 | Capital Letters: (N-Z) |
| 3 | Colors | 11 | Primary
and Secondary Colors |
27 | Weather and Seasons |
| 4 | Shapes | 12 | Mothers and Babies | 28 | Jungle Animals |
| 5 | Number
Sequencing (0 - 10) |
13 | Farm Animals | 29 | Matching Patterns |
| 6 | Numerical Quantity/Counting | 14 | One More or Less | 30 | Who Comes Next ? |
| 7 | Forest Animals | 15 | Animal Match | 31 | What Number Comes Next ? |
| 8 | Auditory
Memory "Singing Fun" |
16 | Parts and Whole | 32 | Character Memory |
| 17 | Counting by Twos | 33 | Signs and Symbols | ||
| 18 | Beginning, Middle and End | 34 | Equipment We Need | ||
| 19 | Birthday Party | 35 | Compass Directions | ||
| 20 | Moods and Feelings | 36 | Ocean Animals | ||
| 21 | Action Words | 37 | Music Fun | ||
| 22 | Where Things Are | 38 | Shadow Match | ||
| 23 | Clothes We Wear | 39 | Transportation | ||
| 24 | Sounds We Hear | 40 | Telling Time |
© The Walt Disney Company
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.