Speak & Spell
January 3, 2009
I saw a link on Kotaku the other day to an interview on Vintage Computing and Gaming with one of the creators of the Speak & Spell, and finally got around to reading it. Very interesting read!
The initial focus groups were interesting: it was never clear that they really understood how appealing a talking product would be to a small child. The first demonstration to the president and the board of directors was interesting — they thought it was being sold too cheap!
The Texas Instruments Speak & Spell was awesome. I was actually looking to pick up a nice one on eBay for the kids not too long ago. There are also a couple of cool Speak & Spell Simulators online. I can’t believe it’s 30 years old… I’m dating myself.
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