Good times. I owned one of these. The TI-99/4A was never very popular, but there was one store called "The Bach Company" on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto that

Good times. I owned one of these. The TI-99/4A was never very popular, but there was one store called "The Bach Company" on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto that specialized in selling hardware and software for it. It's easy to forget just how hard it was to get software for a home computer in the early 1980s. If you had a modem, then you could use bulletin boards, but the first 300 baud models (plus required RS-232 interface) cost even more than the computer itself and so were out of reach for me at least. One of the things the Bach Company sold was 99/4A software on audio cassette. It was packaged in a plastic bag along with a paper printout brochure. Even though I was just a kid, looking back I'm amazed that it never once occurred to me that I could sell software the same way.