10 Dec
1998
10 Dec
'98
4:54 p.m.
OK, talking about Actimates Barney opens the door to this one, which is otherwise more
than a bit off topic:
Does anyone know how flexible the vocabulary is for Talk With Me Barbie ?
[Now I'm never going to be able to show my face in this group again].
I could do some amusing and humorous [NOT Perverted !!!] things with it at work if I could
create my own phrases for the doll to say [ok, so I could do some perverted things also,
but that's NOT what I had in mind !].
Apparently the toy was not successful and they are being liquidated for as little as
$10-$15.
Barry Watzman
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From: Hans Franke [SMTP:Hans.Franke@mch20.sbs.de]
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 1998 5:05 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: OT: Re: The Purple One (was Modem tones over television or radio)
Date sent: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:54:05 -0800
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From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)freegate.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
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Subject: OT: Re: The Purple One (was Modem tones over television or
radio)
Lots of people in the states sell them, its called the
"Actimates" Barney.
As I understood it the toy "saw" signals in the form of IR coded pulses in
the video and responded appropriately. There are a couple of groups on the
net who have hacked the toy to give the dinosaur an extended, if somewhat
less refined, vocabulary.
Any URL ? I did a quick search, but only comercial sites (like MS:
http://microsoft.com./products/hardware/actimates/barney/default.htm )
showed up - and I got a strange feeling reading about what this
toy is intended to do:
<quote>
See what your child can learn with Actimates Barney!
Cooperation
Good Citizenship
Following Directions
...
</quote>
Brrrrrrr.... Brave new world.
Hans
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK