Seems quite advanced for a '88 educational toy. For comparison, I got a VTech SmartStart for xmas in the early '90s and it had just a short 14-segment display l

Seems quite advanced for a '88 educational toy. For comparison, I got a VTech SmartStart for xmas in the early '90s and it had just a short 14-segment display line and could mainly be used together with accompanying paper books :-)