Seen at swapmeet, should I or shouldn't I?

From: Mark Firestone <pdp11_70_at_retrobbs.org>
Date: Mon Nov 17 05:00:40 2003

I had an original 99/4, back when they first came out, and it did have
"keys" not a membrane, but they weren't in the right places, and they
weren't the right size and they didn't have the right "feel."

Basically, you couldn't touch type. It was worse than useless...

Mike Ford wrote:

> At 05:11 PM 11/16/03 -0800, David Vohs wrote:
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>> Did the TI have a "proper" keyboard, or did it have a "calculator-key"
>> keyboard? If it had the "calculator-key" keyboard, it was a TI-99/4 (no
>> "A"), & you sould have gotten it (99/4's are considerably rarer than
>> 99/4A's).
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> I remember it as a flat plastic sheet, but will look again next month.
> BTW it did also have a small box , either sound or voice.
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Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 05:00:40 GMT