Vintage Computing and Gaming has published an interview with Richard Wiggins, one of the developers of Texas Instruments' 1978 electronic toy Speak & Spell. This device was among the first electronic educational games, and for better or worse it may remain among the best.

As the author admits, the interview was meant to be fodder for a proper article marking the 30th anniversary of the device last summer, and as an interview it is rough reading. But read through the whole thing; there are a lot of interesting observations, including a discussion of the speech chip and its limitations.

(via Kotaku)