12 Apr
2001
12 Apr
'01
5:12 p.m.
"James B. DiGriz" wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, McFadden, Mike wrote:
A company called 'Technico' put out a TI 9900-based single board mirco back in
the
late 70s before TI had the 99/4. I rememebr building one for a class project in
college. In fact, I got one in the attic that I need to frag out of of these days
and see if I can add two numbers with it.
Eric
I think there was an entire line of TI minicomputers that were sold off by
TI to HP. I have part of a TI explorer and several TI 1100's and 1500's.
These minicomputers are still used by several HMO's in Kansas City for some
medical billing application. My local computer surplus has 6-7 of them.
There were ASCII TI terminals that went with the system. I seem to remember
that there was a terminal emulation application for the TI-99/4's.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
Pretty certain the system I remember hearing about was a 990. There indeed
a couple of terminal emulater cartridges for the 4A. Kermit was ported to
the 990 and the 4A as well, but that would have required an expansion
system with drives, which this file server setup was apparently intended
to avoid. Little fingers, I guess.
Something's tugging at the back of my mind about the Plato courseware,
too.
jbdigriz