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Sears Talking Machine From 1980
🕑 Added 2025-02-03 00:49:32 +0000 UTCActually not made by Sears - but many surprises in store for you in this traditional FranLab teardown of an amazing piece of history - a talking digital clock from 1980. How did they do that? Get ready, sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride!
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Bob Pockney
For those who watch to the end... eleven eleven
Drewski Brewski
Cool exploration! If it were mine, I'd try re-capping the analog audio signal path to see if that would improve the speech clarity
adrian
1980 wasn't the stone age ! We had microcontrollers and speaking pinball and everything!
Charles Gage
Very cool. I recall buying a Speak-&-Spell for my niece from that era and was "amazed" that it talked! Voice on a chip! How easily we were amused. I wonder what the Sears Talking Machine retailed for back in the day? Probably not cheap. I just Googled the Speak & Spell. It's still made. Only $18.99 at Walmart. Now we have AI video that is hard to tell from the real thing. Great video! Thanks!
