Depends on if you're talking about the 99/4 or 99/4A. The 99/4 was black and silver and had a chiclet style keyboard and is rare. The 4A had a black and silver finish first, and then later switched to beige I imagine in an effort to curb costs since they were being undercut pretty badly by Commodore.
There's a pretty good article about TI's home computers that I've been trying to find that lays out a pretty convincing argument for why the 4A was not successful in the market despite early success. Basically a costly recall of the power supplies wiped out a lot of their profits, and the system was too expensive due to the insistence of using as much in-house parts as possible even when there were much cheaper components available in the wider market, for example the CPU (Z80 or 6502). On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Ed via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a white or beige one > > then there is the black and chrome one? > > which first? and dates please? > > This is unfamiliar territory for me. > but need to pay homage to these > in a museum display here. > > looking for good hi res scans of > adv. material etc. for display?? > > thanks ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) >
