CP/M on the TI-99/4A

From: Geoff Roberts <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
Date: Sun Nov 19 17:10:06 2000

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From: <Glenatacme_at_aol.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: CP/M on the TI-99/4A


> Thanks for posting this -- I'd never heard of this machine and it
looks like
> a lot of fun. A $199 system with support for five mainstream
languages?
> Seems like they could have sold a million of them just to developers
and
> students . . .

As a former TI99/4A owner, I can vouch for that. The machine was a
somewhat better
performer than the C64 it was contemporary with, not just speedwise, but
bear in mind that
this was a 16 bit cpu when all other home computers were 8 bit, and the
drive was your common
or garden type SS or DS floppy, not the strange serial bus "read
everything twice" commodore type.
It certainly had it's quirks, and the keyboard took a little getting
used to, though I think the commodore
had some odd quirks as well. I still have mine somewhere, and the
Editor/Assembler cartridge as well.
What made it flop was more to do with marketing, at which TI were so
totally inept it boggles the mind.
So it never sold very well, they lost on it bigtime, and it prompted
them to get out of home computers and
eventually, computers period.

Cheers

Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie,
South Australia
geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
netcafe_at_tell.net.au
ICQ: 1970476
Received on Sun Nov 19 2000 - 17:10:06 GMT

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