Eighty bucks? Holy mother of Bob! And here I was thinking of trying to find one. I was also thinking of looking for one of those Speech Plus talking calculators and even one of those Echo Speech Synthesizers that I could keep as a momento of days gone by even though I don't own an Apple 2E and therefore can't play any of the games I remember from those days. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] speak and spell and speak and math.
> These little units were possessed. I mean, think of the way they sounded > when making letters. A, E, I, Oaoaoaoaoa, yiou. If you guys know who > Dane Cook is, he does a great imitation of how the Speak-N-Spell units > are possessed by the devil. Quite funny if you ask me. I looked for some > on Ebay a few months ago and they are going for around $80 each because > they are collector's items now. > > Bryan wrote: >> Mine never did that. It just started screaming at you once the batteries >> got >> to a certain point. Or, if you turned it on without a module in it it >> would >> just start making these really weird noises instead of giving you a word >> to >> spell. I've also heard of them just all of a sudden picking a random >> letter >> of the alphabet and then saying a word that began with that letter any >> time >> you tried to set a spelling level. That was another sign that the >> batteries >> were about to die. > -- > Raul A. Gallegos .. http://www.asmodean.net > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]