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Texas Instruments Language Teacher
| Date of introduction: | 1980 | Display technology: | Fluorescent |
| New price: | Display size: | 10 alphanumeric | |
| Size: | 8.0" x 3.4" x 1.2" | ||
| Weight: | 9.0 ounces | Serial No: | 0003417 |
| Batteries: | 4*AA cells | Date of manufacture: | wk 47 year 1980 |
| AC-Adapter: | AC9199 | Origin of manufacture: | USA (ATA) |
| Precision: | Integrated circuits: | TMC0280 + Module: TMC0350, | |
| Memories: | |||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
Shortly
after the invention of the synthesizer technology to reproduce human speech with
tuned voices stored in ROM's (integrated circuits) Texas Instruments introduced
the Language Tutor. About one year later this
product was renamed to Language Translator
and the selling price was reduced. An even cheaper variant called Language
Teacher lacked the speaker and gave the translation only on the display.
| An easy accessible "Solid State Speech™ Module" contained the software to translate from e.g. English, French and Spanish to German. |  |
| Please note on the picture the missing 128k ROM's found in the products with speaker. |  |
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.