In reality, I recall that though TI didn't market their products the way
Intel does now, they did market their home computers back in the early
'80's. What's more they advertised their electronic toys more than all the
other fellows you've mentioned combined. The TI salesman called me as often
as any of the others, if not more. I was, after all, a user of many of
their products, since they had more than any other single manufacturer, and
their efforts to make their products accessible to small developers were a
great help.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: z80 timing... 6502 timing
><Now I know that many people didn't consider it a reasonable computer, but
><the TMS-9900 did make a memorable appearance in the TI-99/4/4A of blessed
><memory - 16K if I recall correctly. Once you added a PEB, RS-232 card, 32
><memory card, 2 HH DS/SD floppies and an Extended Basic cartidge, it was a
><fine computer.
>
>Not quite true. There were the TI business systems, the ti990-xxx boards
>that could be systems or used as SBCs and after the TI99/4a there was the
>Geneve system that was marketed. Another was a ti9900 board for S100.
>Also Technico systems had both the basic Super starter system as a SBC
>and expansion boards for it as well.
>
>It didn't make the impact because TI didn't market it like intel, moto or
>Mos tech.. Actually they didn't market it at all until the were an also
>ran. Shame too as it was the fist 16bit single chip and vastly better than
>8086 considering it was 4 years earlier.
>Allison
>
Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 18:56:23 BST