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Texas Instruments Voyager

Date of introduction:	1988	Display technology:
New price:		Display size:
Size:
Weight:	10 ounces	Serial No:
Batteries:	4*AAA cells	Date of manufacture:	wk 39 year 1988
AC-Adapter:		Origin of manufacture:	USA
Precision:		Integrated circuits:	TSP50C41 (CMM41014), TSP60C19 (CMM19005) Modules: TSP60C21
Memories:
Program steps:		Courtesy of:	Joerg Woerner
		Download manual:	(US: 4.5M Bytes)

Texas Instruments introduced with the Voyager a novel educational toy that lacks the position sensitive keyboard of products like the Touch & Tell. Instead of the traditional keyboard a microphone is used to control the game. The speech recognition detects simple words like "yes", "no", "true" or "false" as an input to the game.

The Voyager game uses exchangeable speech ROMs in an expansion port. This gives you access to other stories than the provided.

Dismantling the featured Voyager manufactured in September 1988 by Texas Instruments in the United States for Stefan in Germany reveals an internal construction based on a TSP50C41 single-chip speech synthesizer and an external speech memory TSP60C019 to store the voices of the game. The speaker and microphone of the "headset" are connected with a flexible printed circuit board (Flex-PCB).

The Main-PCB of the Voyager uses three Integrated Circuits:

• TSP50C41/CSM41014: 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/CMM19005: VSM (Voice Synthesis Memory) with 256k Bits
• TLC274: Quad Operational Amplifiers in CMOS Technology

Hi, my name is Stefan and I was not manufactured in Dallas, Texas. I was born wk 29 year 1994 in Filderstadt, Germany, about six years after my favorite toy was introduced. Update: Since July 2006 I'm living in Upstate New York, much closer to Texas.

Eight different Voyager Cartridge are known:

Name	Color	Module	Description	Booklets	Download
Journey to Exotic Animals	Green		Exotic Land Animals and Water Animals		(US: 4.2M Bytes) (US: 4.0M Bytes)
Journey to Birds & Reptiles	Yellow/ Orange		Birds and Reptiles		(US: 3.7M Bytes) (US: 4.1M Bytes)
Journey to Human Anatomy	Pumpkin Orange		Human Anatomy: Eating & Breathing and Moving & Sensing		(US: 3.1M Bytes) (US: 2.9M Bytes)
Journey to Language Arts	Red		The Language Arts		(US: 7.3M Bytes)
Journey to The Prehistoric World	Blue		Prehistoric Animals and Dinosaurs		(US: 4.2M Bytes) (US: 4.3M Bytes)
Journey into Space	Reddish Purple		Things in Space and The Planets		(US: 4.8M Bytes) (US: 4.7M Bytes)
Journey across The United States	Bluish Purple		The Western and Eastern United States		(US: 4.9M Bytes) (US: 4.6M Bytes)
Journey to U.S. Presidents	Gray		United States Presidents Before and After the Civil War		(US: 4.2M Bytes) (US: 4.2M Bytes)

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