Not exactly a toy, but there was a talking wristwatch for the blind that would sometimes say something like "the time is: three, equals, memory clear, PM". Appa

Not exactly a toy, but there was a talking wristwatch for the blind that would sometimes say something like "the time is: three, equals, memory clear, PM". Apparently the company, who also made other hardware for the blind, decided that it was less costly to manufacture one kind of chip for both the calculator and the watch, and then have some way of telling it which device it is, probably a pin that was either always 0 or always 1. When the battery was running low, something weird would happen and the wrong sample would sometimes play.