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Ramada may have been the first / most important customer. But growing up in North Texas where TI sales-people were thick on the ground, I noticed that just abo
by retrocryptid 4y ago
Ramada may have been the first / most important customer. But growing up in North Texas where TI sales-people were thick on the ground, I noticed that just about EVERY police department within 30 miles of Dallas had a 990 in the back and 770 terminals up front. I remember writing a check to cover traffic tickets in Cedar Hill and Arlington. Both had 770's and a friend from high school got a job in Arlington running their 990.
- jes 4y agoInteresting. I sometimes look for a 990/10 or /12 on eBay but I haven't seen any in years. I think bitsavers.org has some software for the 990 series, like DX-10 and some language systems.
- 13of40 4y agoI found one in a thrift shop in the early 90s, with no storage or other peripherals. Never got it to do anything by itself, but 17-year-old me successfully soldered the (white ceramic and gold) CPU into the TI-99/4a my dad bought in about 1981. I passed that computer on to a younger kid who learned to code assembly on it.