"FIODA" - Texas Instruments Speak & Spell fun

[dispatcher50100]

To those of you who are thinking of experimenting with this, I would advise against doing it frequently.

In fall 2010, I owned one of the rare raised key Speak & Spell units, which began emitting strange static sound effects, and eventually ceased to function, after performing this easter egg operation a bit too much. 

[Painz4life]

spell fhpihqpihpiqhfpqihfphqpihqipwh­pihp

your correct !!! now TRY ballsack

[wurlitzer165]

spell blub blub blub...

[ToxicNightmareX]

SPELL LUUULLLZZZ

[Azurelp]

I dont remember mine having this problem...lol.

[paisleypower30]

Is it sad that I understood the first sentence in the description.

[Lachlant1984]

I never owned a Speak and Spell but my best friend did. He recently told me that his unit would sometimes start behaving erraticly, even under normal circumstances, the unit would eventuall right itself and operate normally however. My friend also had a Talking Lesson One, as did I, and he recently also told me that if he was using his Talking Lesson One with an AC Adaptor and he accidently bunped the adaptor plug, the Talking Lesson One, would start acting strangely, as if the battery was low

[XMollyKuramaX]

"Spell quiet!"

"--QUIET!"

...I guess it doesn't want you to spell after all. XD;

[Intosia]

Sounds nicer then a bent :)

[rockergirl83]

After it said spell cousin and said try again, it sounded like it called you a nigger! (excuse my french)

[ChrisMew2]

You can still do this by wetting the tip of your finger or thumb with water and running it along the leads of the main processor on the back of the board. I forgotten all about this 'till I ran across this video here on YouTube. The sounds bring back memories. This was about 20 years ago that I did this. I was 9 years old.

[Crestiboy]

i tryed to spell... didn't work.:-)

[corruptcrew]

sounds like that r2d2 dude from the star wars movies

[dashwarts]

hmm, loose cartridge (in battery door, above batteries)

[cpmisalive]

Nope, read the video description - this behaviour isn't down to any loose connection!

[WOLF192]

I HERD IT BURP LIKE 12 TIMES IN THIS VID

[Glomm]

my speak and spell did this too ;)

and its not circuit bended ...

[mtpaynter]

sound like R2D2 on crack

[vulcanjedi]

Mine is a 1980 USA model and all it does when I try this it changes from A to all the segments of the skill level letter on and double bright.

[vacuumbitch]

Did you get this Speak & Spell from the USA.

BTW, I have a 1986 model, And I can do the same thing, if you press on & gom and, It even does it, with full charged batteries.

[cpmisalive]

No, it was the model before they changed the voice to a British (cheesy) voice for the UK market. The UK model is newer and doesn't suffer from the same problem.

I just press GO and then press ON and GO quickly one after the other. You have to reset it by pressing the ON button.

It doesn't work on the Speak & Math that I have.

[MThomas23]

that had to change the voice because the accent was strong- nobody could understand it! lol