TI 99 & a good weekend

From: Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios_at_vennea.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue Apr 29 07:20:13 1997

On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Charles P. Hobbs wrote:

> The beige TI 99/4A was a newer version that came out in 1993.

  1983, surely. :-)


> Many (if not
> all) of those TI's were redesigned by TI so as not to run third-party
> cartridge software (TI wanted absolute control of that market--desperate
> moves by a product division bleeding red ink.)

  Is that true? Eek... I have a dislike for TI (besides, they discontinued
the machine I learned BASIC on just as I was getting interested), but that's
just too much.

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