>I have a Technico Super starter board and it runs the TI9900 at 4mhz
>with 16bit wide memeory and rom really fast compared to the Z80
>(comparison made on both machines I still have from 1979!). I picked up
>the TI99/4a and was sadly disappointed save for the bundle of
>really good and inexpensive software for it. Still, it plays a mean game
>of
>Parsec!!!
Parsec is the main use of my 4A...it's the replacement for
all the quarter-dropping days playing Defender. When playing Parsec
though, one has to have the Speech Synth plugged in! It's too bad TI
killed the idea of additional plug-in modules to add to it's
vocabulary.
Jeff
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