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Texas Instruments Teddy Touch & Tell

Date of introduction:	1993	Display technology:	n.a.
New price:	$38.25 (1992) Libraries: $17.95	Display size:
Size:	13.5" x 12.0" x 3.7"
Weight:	2 pounds 5 ounces	Serial No:
Batteries:	4*AA cells	Date of manufacture:	wk 32 year 1993
AC-Adapter:		Origin of manufacture:	USA
Precision:		Integrated circuits:	TSP50C11 (CSM11163) Modules:
Memories:
Program steps:		Courtesy of:	Joerg Woerner
		Download manuals:	(US: 1.0 MByte) (US: 0.7 MByte) (US: 0.8 MByte)

The cute Teddy Touch & Tell continues the ideas of the previous Touch & Tell and the wonderful Touch & Discover. The idea of the product is simple: Switch the game on and wait for the instruction. The only thing you need is your fingertip.

This educational toys addresses children aged 2-5 years and introduces the Alphabet, Numbers, Colours, Animals, Music and a lot of other intersting things with a friendly voice.

Dismantling the Teddy Touch & Tell reveals technology very similar to the various Touch & Talkies. The Main-PCB (printed circuit board) is even simpler than the previous Touch & Discover and uses only two integrated circuits, one of the a TSP50C11 Voice Synthesis Processor.

The Teddy Touch & Tell uses exchangable speech ROM's in an expansion port. This gives you access to other game-pictures than the provided Bluish Purple ones. Three different color-coded Teddy Touch & Tell Cartridge's are known : Green, Blue, and Reddish Purple.
(Info provided by Hallvard Tangeraas, Norway - Thanks!)

Color-Code	Cartridge, Decription	Module	Overlays
Bluish Purple 4 activity cards	Teddy Touch & Tell unit Colors/Shapes Play a tune/Clothes Alphabet/numbers Sizes/Animals		(US: 3.0 MByte)
Green 5 activity cards	Teddy's Word Friends Alphabet A to E/Alphabet F to J Alphabet K to P/Alphabet Q to T Alphabet U to Z/Rhyme time Word spell I/Word spell II What comes next I/What comes next II		(US: 3.5 MByte)
Blue 5 activity cards	Teddy's Animal Friends Silly sentences I/Silly sentences II Forest animals/Ocean animals Jungle animals/Polar animals Domestic animals/Farm animals Animal song/Make an animal		(US: 6.0 MByte)
Reddish Purple 5 activity cards	Teddy's Number Friends Numbers 1 to 4/Numbers 5 to 8 Numbers 9 to 12/Numbers 13 to 16 Numbers 17 to 20/How many Subtraction I/Subtraction II Addition I/Addition II		(US: 3.4 MByte)

In Germany this toy was sold as "Teddy, der sprechende Bär" (Teddy - The Speaking Bear) and in France as "Le Petit Ours Magique" (The Small Magic Bear) with adopted voices.

If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.