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To save you either needed a cassette recorder, plugged into the machine with a special cable, then "SAVE CS1" and follow the instructions. (Start recording, the
by eesmith 9mo ago
To save you either needed a cassette recorder, plugged into the machine with a special cable, then "SAVE CS1" and follow the instructions. (Start recording, the TI plays sound to the output port, which gets stored on tape. Use "LOAD CS1" to load from cassette, after rewinding to the start of the program.)
Or you needed an expansion box, with a floppy drive, in which case you could do "SAVE DSK1,PROGNAME" to save to "PROGNAME" on the first disk. I didn't have an expansion box.
Neither would have come with the base computer.
- endgame 9mo agoThe command to load a program in TI BASIC was actually "OLD <DEVICE>". Probably because they already had "NEW". https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A_system_usage#Loading https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A_system_usage#Loadin...
- eesmith 9mo agoMy 40 year old memories are indeed faulty. Thanks for the correction! FWIW, I probably confused it with Commodore Basic, since part of me wanted to put a ",1" at the end of the load command.
- timbit42 9mo agoThe reason it had the OLD command is because the original version of BASIC, Dartmouth BASIC, had the OLD command. Microsoft BASICS didn't have it.
- 83457 9mo agoI believe it was also the Mini Memory cart where you could save programs, backed by a replaceable battery inside.
- incanus77 8mo agoMy parents were forward-thinking enough to, when I wanted a tape player in 1985, get me a significantly less cool-looking but more versatile desktop model with the plugs to eventually hook up to a computer for saving & loading. Which one day, I did!