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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For those who watch to the end... eleven eleven
Bob Pockney
2025-02-05 12:08:11 +0000 UTCCool exploration! If it were mine, I'd try re-capping the analog audio signal path to see if that would improve the speech clarity
Drewski Brewski
2025-02-03 17:09:39 +0000 UTC1980 wasn't the stone age ! We had microcontrollers and speaking pinball and everything!
adrian
2025-02-03 12:57:08 +0000 UTCVery 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!
Charles Gage
2025-02-03 02:55:26 +0000 UTC
