On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> For the longest time, the TMS 9900 didn't appear in anything one could
> consider a reasonable computer. There was one model I saw at a colleagues
> home which had expansion capability, but he often complained that cards for
> interesting applications, like mass storage, etc, were not available. I
> didn't pursue it and so I believe(d) it to be true. I saw one ad for an
> SC/MP, in '77, but that one was a homebrewed model. Other than that, it was
> not of much interest here. Was that not the case in Germany? The processor
> was still in National's data book, but I really wasn't then and am not now
> of any operating system or application software for it. I don't believe I
> ever saw a real SC/MP based computer.
Richard, the rest of the world does not peer through the same blinders you
have on.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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