Dad liked the TI 99/4a so much he bought 2 of them, from service merchandise no less. It had a 16 bit processor and a really swell speech synth module (golly ge

Dad liked the TI 99/4a so much he bought 2 of them, from service merchandise no less. It had a 16 bit processor and a really swell speech synth module (golly gee it says good shot pilot when you zap an alien!) Personal computer prices were in a meteoric decent just a few years prior radio shack had a catalog of them starting well over $3,000.