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That reminds me of the TI-99's "sidecars". Those were flat on the desk, so the computer could get quite wide. http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/sidecar.htm
by Findecanor 3y ago
That reminds me of the TI-99's "sidecars". Those were flat on the desk, so the computer could get quite wide.
http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/sidecar.html http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/sidecar.html
The Amiga 1000 supported sidecars but later big-box Amigas had internal expansion slots like PCs.
The wedge-shaped home computer Amiga 500 supported sidecars. I had an Amiga 500 with SCSI HD sidecar, and a video grabber which was two sidecars (one for the RGB splitter), but the HD and grabber didn't work together.
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- musicale 3y agoAmusing but not entirely practical. That being said, Apple's modular design gives me a Eurorack vibe that TI's lacks.
- spc476 3y agoThe IBM PCjr also had sidecars. I had a PCjr as a kid with two memory sidecards, and a parallel port sidecar. And yes, it did make the computer wide.
- SoftTalker 3y agoThe TI-99 also had an expansion box that accepted cards for more RAM, RS-232, disk controllers, and other functions. https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/ti-99-4a-faq-peripheral-expansion-box-and-boards/ https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/ti-99-4a-faq-peripheral-exp... The cable to connect the box to the computer console was ridiculously thick and heavy, and rarely shown in marketing photos.
- mrkstu 3y agoI had this as a kid, hooked up along side the voice synthesizer. I never had a reason to actually buy an expansion card, but having the disk drive was nice, and I was the only kid I knew with a disk drive vs tape- the local library even had the ability to check out TI shareware type software via cassette. Great platform, other than some clunky decisions up front that crippled the hardware so it didn't compete with business lines, and trying to keep out 3rd party developers.