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Toy ID Boards => Toy ID Help => Topic started by: farmgirl8705 on Monday 09 April 2012, 07:02 pm
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I am looking for the name a V-Tech Notebook. Or at least I am pretty sure it's V-Tech. I am sure its made in the mid or late 1990s. At least I had it around the mid or late 1990s.
You can hook it up to your tv but only do two things on your tv with it. One thing is a word processor. The other thing is a game you can make up a face. You can change the hair and facial expressions.
It came with a printer as well to print out your documents.
It also had a separate mouse like a desktop computer. It didn't have a mouse built into the notebook just separate. You are able to disconnect the mouse from the notebook I believe.
It looked a lot like what notebooks they have now a days for kids but just made back in the 90s.
My mom got it for us so we could be kinda trained to use a real computer before we got a real one. After that we did get a real one. We got out real computer in 1999 I believe it was.
It opens, closes, and looks like a real laptop computer. I remember it was dark gray colored. The buttons may have been lighter gray. It had a small black and gray screen like all the Vtech notebook computers. On the top of the keyboard there was lists of game buttons like the older Vtech notebook computers.
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g265/trickynickie/Old%20Toys/100_0301.jpg)
This VTech we have already. Like in the pic how I mentioned the games are listed above the keyboard. If I remember right the one I am looking for was like that too. May be its not VTech but I am pretty positive it is. I don't know of any other brand of children's play notebooks out there.
Thank you for those who can help.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/231027/kids_computers_through_the_ages.html
I've been given this website multiple times. Nothing on the site is what I am looking for. It's kinda a mixture of the V-Tech Super Color Whiz yes and the Tiger Learning Computer without the games on the top part. It has the screen like the V-tech and the keyboard and mouse like the Tiger Learning Computer.
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http://www.amazon.com/VTech-Power-Pad-Plus-Precomputer/dp/B004DACOJI
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g265/trickynickie/Miscellaneous/81C1O26bYJL_AA1310_.jpg)
Here is a computer I found on Amazon that is pretty much like what I am looking for. I am pretty positive what I am looking for is a pre-computer pad. I don't think its that exact one though. All the buttons were light gray. I really can't remember what the top part looks like by the screen.
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I found a picture today that looks a lot like the children's notebook I had. Same color but doesn't seem to have a mouse attached. Yes there is a mouse in the picture but as you can see it's not connected to the computer. It is very very similar to what I am looking for. Infact I could almost say this is exactly what I am looking for. Except I don't know the name of it and I can't see the screen. Otherwise an almost exact match.
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g265/trickynickie/Miscellaneous/164453_416170588476541_543163586_n_zps8bb77d6c.jpg)
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We gave it to my cousin but I don't think she has it anymore. Three is three years younger then me and more interested in a real computer and video games so I don't think she would have it anymore. Otherwise I'd ask my aunt or cousin if they know what it was called.
The notebook in the picture I posted above with the cat I believe may be the one but I can't see the screen. I see there is a piece of paper there so it may be a notebook you can hook up to a printer unless they did that to try to get the cat's attention to make it look like it was using a computer. If I knew what kind it is I would look it up and see if everything about it matches what I had.
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http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1994toys.html
scroll to the bottom Smart Elite by VTech
is this it?
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I'm sorry it wasn't a V-Tech which I should have known. ComQuest Smart Station Talking Electronic Computer - Connects to TV
https://www.google.com/search?q=comquest+smart+station&prmd=snmxiv&sxsrf=AOaemvIQ90p-XvLa7E8CkfFeUAclFkiAWQ:1643227053910&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO3tTmmdD1AhWpY98KHTvGAX8Q_AUoBHoECAIQBA&biw=360&bih=617&dpr=3#imgrc=EcDfKjSzpc9elM
The printer that was purchased separate with it Rare Vintage Team Concepts Junior Computer Power Printer Plus.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185088750843?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050
It stinks they are so expensive. I'd be buying them.