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2026-10-25

The toy that knew 200 words and no more

Retired Tech Museum Catalog
Retired Tech Museum Catalog@yuzichen13
It knew 200 words for $50 and could never learn a 201st. 12 By 1982 it was E.T.'s communicator; 3 in 2009, an IEEE Milestone. 456

References

  1. 1
    Datamath Calculator Museum — Texas Instruments Speak & Spell, with the June 1978 press release

    datamath.org

  2. 2
    IEEE Spectrum — Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell

    spectrum.ieee.org

  3. 3
    Wikipedia — Speak & Spell (toy)

    en.wikipedia.org

  4. 4
    IEEE / ETHW — Speak & Spell, the first use of a DSP IC for speech generation, 1978

    ethw.org

  5. 5
    Vintage Computing and Gaming — Richard Wiggins on the development of Speak & Spell

    vintagecomputing.com

  6. 6
    Wikimedia Commons — Speak & Spell (original style), photograph by FozzTexx, CC BY-SA 4.0

    commons.wikimedia.org

Retired Tech Museum Catalog
Retired Tech Museum Catalog@yuzichen13

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