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08/25/2006 Archived Entry: "Tomy Tutor Play Computer"
A recent garage sale find for my grandson (25 cents!) is the Tomy Tutor, a toy computer that has buttons to bang on, which move a paper strip inside a screen. He loves it! And I remember my nephews had one of these also. I didn't know that there was actually a real 16-bit computer from Tomy back in the eighties. From a Tomy collector's site: "Released in 1983, the Tutor was just unlucky enough to hit in the middle of the VIC-20 and 64 craze, despite its superior graphics and its fast, efficient speed. Based around the 16-bit Texas Instruments 9995 processor, it blew away the 99/4's in both speed and efficiency (but alas is largely incompatible), implementing the fine graphics of the TMS 9918ANL chip, its earlier relative, the TMS 9918A, powering the Coleco Adam, the Sord and, of course, the 99/4 series. It even had a built-in paint program, since the graphics were so good, plus lots of fabulous games."
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Never had the chance to play with a Tomy Tutor back in the day my nieghbors kid had one but would never let me use it, which I remebered when I was the first on the block to get a nintendo.
Posted by kary @ 08/28/2006 01:41 AM PST