* Black and chrome, chiclet keyboard - TI-99/4, the first TI home
computer (1979).
* Black and chrome, typewriter keyboard - TI-99/4A, the revised
version of the above (1981).
* Beige, typewriter keyboard - TI-99/4A, cost-reduced version of the
above (1983). Manufactured for only a few mont
Tony Duell says:
> > In some of the documentation, the sketch of a joystick was clearly
> > the Radio Shack Coco joystick (which needed a different connector)
>
> And is electrically different.
The Tandy 1000 series has Color Computer joystick ports (and the
TRS-80 card-edge parallel port). I've
Andrew Luke Nesbit says:
> Does anybody have recommendations for RSS readers?
I recommend Inoreader. Best replacement for Google Reader I know of.
Adam Thornton says:
> The genealogy of Computer Science departments (and their curricula)
> (at least in the US) is also weird and historically-contingent.
> Basically it seems to have been a tossup at any given school whether
> it came out of the Electr[ical|onic] Engineering department, in
> whi
Fred Cisin says:
> But, instead, it looked as though they just replaced the dollar sign
> with pound sign, and ignored the exchange rate! So, you paid about
> twice as much for the machines. I have heard prices of PET: 600
> pounds (V $600), Apple: 1200 pounds (V$1200), and TRS80: 500 pounds
> (V
Guy Sotomayor says:
> We had a similar problem when I was at IBM and we were developing a
> follow on to the PC/AT (it never shipped).
Was this the "PC II" (a "true" sequel to the PC) that magazines constantly
talked about IBM working on, until the PS/2 disappointed everyone?
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Liam Proven says:
> I know that Sinclair computers were _so_ cheap that in the USA they
> were perceived as toys, not worthy of any serious consideration.
This was true in more wealthy countries outside the US, too. Sinclair never got
anywhere in Germany compared to Commodore, for example. The ZX
Jecel Assumpcao Jr says:
> While the American public were very ignorant of Sinclair's
> achievements, the US home computer makers were very worried about
> them. In 1983 both Commodore and Texas Instruments were working on
> their "ZX81 killers".
The US industry thought that the $99 price point ne
Eric Dittman says:
> There's a 2K hole in the Model I memory map above the ROM
Is this the hole that causes stock Model I to not run CP/M?
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