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lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 11:30 AM Jun 2021

Happy 40th Birthday to my TI-99/4A.




It was my intro to home computing and served me well till I upgraded to a Wang 386.

It was fun toying around with TI-Basic and connecting to BBS's with my 14.4 modem.
The kids and I played many games, some times for hours.

It's still out in my garage buried under a lot of other junk. I haven't opened the box in decades.

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Link: https://www.howtogeek.com/731558/a-successful-failure-the-ti-994a-turns-40/


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Happy 40th Birthday to my TI-99/4A. (Original Post) lpbk2713 Jun 2021 OP
hem. wheres the car parked ? lol. AllaN01Bear Jun 2021 #1
I still have mine. Ron Obvious Jun 2021 #2
I was an Atari 800 guy. hunter Jun 2021 #3
 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
2. I still have mine.
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 01:11 PM
Jun 2021

I even got the expansion set with the (90k) floppy drive.

Remember Tunnels & Trolls and Parsec? I once had a game going that lasted literally hours.

Never was much of a game player before or since, though.

hunter

(38,264 posts)
3. I was an Atari 800 guy.
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 02:44 PM
Jun 2021

I also built a ZX81 from kit.



I've still got most of my Atari and Sinclair stuff but it's not in collectible condition because I was always hacking it.

Before that I built two COSMAC 1802 computers. I still have the second 1802 machine, which has parts cannibalized from the first.

The earliest computers I built used telephone relays, lots of diodes, and Nixie tubes.



As someone accustomed to the architectures of the PDP-11, 1802, and 6502 processors, the architecture of the TMS9900 microprocessor used in the TI-99/4A was strange to me and I didn't have any good reason to explore it.

My favorite computer today is the Raspberry Pi. The new Raspberry Pi 400 is reminiscent of older computer-in-the-keyboard machines like the TI-99/4A or Sinclairs.

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