TMS9900 Lives! (fwd)

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun Dec 29 22:28:00 2002

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> Spotted on the ti99 list on YahooGroups.
>
> ----- Forwarded message -----
>
> X-Apparently-To: ti99-4a{{{at}}}yahoogroups.com
> To: ti99-4a{{{at}}}yahoogroups.com
> Message-id: <200212292023.NAA07743_at_aztec2.asu.edu>
> X-eGroups-From: dlormand{{{at}}}aztec.asu.edu (DAVID L. ORMAND)
> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:23:55 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: [ti-99/4a] TMS9900 Lives!
>
>
>
> Just thought you guys would get a charge out of this:
>
> Regardless of what anyone else thinks, the Army thinks we
> will be at war with Iraq imminently. So the old TOW team
> has been busy through the Christmas break.
>
> And I got to play with 9989 assembly again! Joy!
>
> Furthermore, since the old development tools don't seem to
> be working anymore (VAX and HP9000), I had to drag in one
> of my TI-99/4A systems to do module testing! Much to the
> amusement of the rest of the team!
>
> The old dog still lives!

So basically, old computers can kill just as senselessly as new computers.

Wonderful.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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