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Texas Instruments Le Zoo Magique
| Date of introduction: | 1990 | Display technology: | |
| New price: | Display size: | n.a. | |
| Size: | 13.4" x 13.4" x 3.7" | ||
| Weight: | 2 pounds 11 ounces | Serial No: | |
| Batteries: | 4*AA cells | Date of manufacture: | mth 07 year 1991 |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | China (A) | |
| Precision: | Integrated circuits: | TSP50C11 (CSM11xxx) | |
| Memories: | |||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
Nothing
else than a French edition of the Talking
Peek-A-Boo Zoo.
Dismantling this Peek-A-Boo Zoo manufactured in 1991 by (or for) Texas Instruments in China reveals a technology very similar to the various Touch & Talkies. The design of the Peek-A-Boo Zoo is centered around a TSP50C11 Voice Synthesis Processor (VSP) and makes use of just one Integrated Circuit:
| • TSP50C11/CSM11xxx: TSP50C50 VSP (Voice Synthesis Processor) with 8-bit microcontroller and 16k Bytes Mask ROM for both program and voice and 128 Bytes + 16 Nibbles RAM |
The toy is intended for toddlers ages 9 to 36 month.
The toy was available in a lot of different languages:
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• American Voice:
Peek-A-Boo Zoo • Spanish Voice: El Zoo Mágico • French Voice: Le Zoo Magique • British Voice: Talking Peep-O Zoo |
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, February 2, 2005. No reprints without written permission.