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Texas Instruments Ready...Set...Read!
| Date of introduction: | 1988 | Display technology: | n.a. |
| New price: | Libraries: $19.95 | Display size: | |
| Size: | 12.0" x 21.5" x 1.7" | ||
| Weight: | 2 pounds 13 ounces | Serial No: | |
| Batteries: | 4*AA cells | Date of manufacture: | year 1988 |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | USA | |
| Precision: | Integrated circuits: | TSP50C42 (CSM42008), TSP60C80 (CMM80002) Module: TSP60C21 |
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| Memories: | |||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner | |
| Download leaflet: | 
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Instruments introduced with the Ready...Set...Read! a combination of the previous
Speak & Read and the position sensitive keyboard of the
Touch &
Tell game. The game could be opened and one of the supplied small booklets inserted.
The integrated voice synthesizer will ask you different questions and you have
to show with your fingertip the answers.
The Ready...Set...Read ! uses exchangable Speech-ROM's in an expansion port. Each of them corresponds to a set of different booklets.
18 different booklets are known :
 | Blue: Basic set (1..4) |
| Orange: Reading Fun 1 Expansion Pack (5..11) |
| Purple: Reading Fun 2 Expansion Pack (12..18) |
Up to now we don't know the differences to the Super Speak & Read.
The picture on the left side displays the game in the closed state. Find a picture of the opened toy here.
The Ready...Set...Read! got later a smaller sibbling with identical booklets and hardware, the Magic Reading Desk.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, December 15, 2001. No reprints without written permission.