On 6 September 2017 at 16:55, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/the-texas-instruments-994-worlds-first-16bit-computer ...? Also see: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-the-texas-instruments-home-computer/ A more positive, nostalgic look: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/27/community_builds_around_ti_99_4a/ There was a later successor model from another company, the Geneve 9640. A complete computer in its own right, it plugged into the 99/4A's Peripheral Expansion Box and totally replaced it. It shows what the machine could have been, if TI hadn't crippled it for fear of competing with its higher-end models. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1208&st=1 A bit more info including a scan of the product brochure: http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/geneve/geneve.html -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053
