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Miniorgan: Rare and vintage musical electronic toys 20 Aug 2007
Miniorgan is a collection of rare and vintage musical electronic toys (or as the curator puts it: "[it's] the first museum of lost organs, damned keyboards, childish synthesizers, dusty voice transformers and singing calculators..from the 70ies and 80ies").
From a user interface design perspective this stuff is absolutely fascinating. Take a look at the "Sketch-A-Tune" above. It was first released in 1975 and is "played" by drawing on a sheet of paper with a pencil!
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3 comments so far
Jez 20 Aug 2007 11:12 AM
Great find. Thanks!
My favourite so far is Musik Lok - the little train with the eight note keyboard on the bottom that plays a tune as it runs over switches on the track!
Simon 20 Aug 2007 02:17 PM
Jez: Thanks for your comment. The Musik Lok is a favourite of mine too! Would be interesting to know how well each of these toys sold.
battery 3 Jun 2008 12:49 AM
I suspect the pull-out by Fujitsu is not only likely to push the NPfIT program schedule back past the 2014-15 time frame, but probably end up costing the NHS more than if it had paid Fujitsu what it wanted.