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The TI-99/4A was an early 16 bit PC from the very early 80s, it was not part of the calculator line. The naming is very similar though: https://en.wikipedia.or
by kevstev 5y ago
The TI-99/4A was an early 16 bit PC from the very early 80s, it was not part of the calculator line. The naming is very similar though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A
Its relatively obscure, I only know it because it was my first computer, given to me as a cast off in the late 80s. I wrote basic programs that I copied out of books into it, looking at this site I am actually blown away that it had the capabilities for "real" games.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago> Its relatively obscure I don’t agree. Maybe it’s because you got it in the late 80s, and by then it was under powered and there were so many other choices like inexpensive IBM PC clones. In the early / mid 80s, it was definitely popular where I lived… and it was inexpensive compared to things like the Apple 2e. I had two friends with TI 99/4a units.
- kevstev 5y agoI felt that to be true as I had never heard of it, and by the mid 80s if there was one PC everyone was talking about, it was the Commodore 64. Even years later when I got on the internet and tried to figure out what exactly it was that I learned to program on, it took a bit of work to find out what the exact model was and to find any real info about it. But maybe its regional- I was also a small child (7-10ish) when I used it and even the adults around me rarely used computers, and when they did it was in an office context- like one for the entire office.
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