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On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Allison J Parent wrote: Yes, I've since seen the guts of a TI-99/4A. I ignored it for many years, since the time I first played with a TI-99/4 at the computer store in Las Vegas, wrote a BASIC loop to count to a hundred and got there first counting out loud. I've been shown since that the machine was reasonably fast, as long as you avoided BASIC, but that was the only tool at the time. My fiancee has three of them, one still in shrink-wrap -- she credits a cassette-based algebra tutorial for the system is what got her through the math requirement to get her nursing degree from Rutgers (a bit of a joke for a guy who decided to major in math by the time he reached 4th grade in 1964, that tutorial covers material I had to know to get a decent grade in 8th grade -- and I'd always been told that public schools on the east coast were miles ahead of those I attended in Los Angeles, in more than one case by one of my teachers in Los Angeles -- when I moved learned that Santa Claus and Jesus weren't the only things my mother lied about when I was a kid -- but maybe the schools were better before the federal government leveled the playing field and made them "equal" ala Kurt Vonnegut's story "Harrison Bergeron".) All I know is that I can do a damn sight more useful work with a TRS-80 Model 4 or Color Computer than I've ever seen done with a TI-99 -- and I apologise for showing favoritism in this mailing list where I know damned well I should not play such favorites. (But I will continue to let others collect the machines with those 6502 processors -- never had it, never will). -- Ward Griffiths "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe