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Additional Pictures
This rare Speak & Spell
"Professor" was manufactured
in 1990 by Texas Instruments in China.
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The housing of the Speak
& Spell "Professor" uses obviously the original mold
from a 1980 model.
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The inside view of the
Speak & Spell "Professor" looks at first
glance familiar, but their are a lot of differences to the western Speak & Spell's to discover.
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The
electronics of the Speak & Spell "Professor" manufactured in 1990 with
the display electronics on the upper PCB (printed circuit board) and the main electronics on the lower PCB.
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The PCB of the Speak &
Spell "Professor" manufactured in 1990 is centered around the TSP50C42 single-chip speech synthesizer. |
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