Having watched ET with Moonbase Junior we checked out some You Tubery of Speak and Spell, the toy reading device that ET uses to phone home.
Junior was fascinated and since he can't read yet it may actually be a useful thing to have in the house.
Checking Amazon for new products - I thought it might have been re-retroed and re-released - there aren't any new Speak and Spells. Ebay on the other hand has a handful in the UK and around £40 would bag one I reckon, although that's quite dear.
I shall have to keep my eye open at car boots this summer!
Anyways, I was intrigued by the claim on You Tube that it was the first household PC. Is it a PC? Can its operation be classed as computing?
Wiki says when it came out in June 1978 it was "one of the earliest handheld electronic devices with a visual display to use interchangeable game cartridges".
Is that a PC?
What do you think?
