30 Jun
2014
30 Jun
'14
8:30 a.m.
On 6/30/2014 3:04 AM, John Many Jars wrote:
On 30 June 2014 09:04, Liam Proven <lproven at
gmail.com> wrote:
My roommates and I got free ones. When they were dropped, there was a
$25.00 rebate from TI on them, and many locations sold them for $25 for
about a 2 week period. The exercise was to find a newspaper with the
$25 rebate ad and make it to a store with some left.
It was an exercise similar to running around to McDonalds getting the
lead paint glasses before they were all pulled (another story) At least
you didn't have to live on happy meals while running form department
store to department store looking for the TI's.
You had to unfortunately cut off the full proof of purchase panel on the
box, which I didn't want to do, and mail it in.
For those of you who have them, if you got one third party with the
serial number and UPC panel missing on the box, that is what is going on
with that second hand machine.
Jim
That is what I took it to mean, yes.
I
should know better than to answer posts before 10am.
They ended up less than that. $50 according to:
http://www.pc-history.org/texas.htm
Wow. Why didn't I buy (another) one?
Yep. That is
how I got to use one; my school bought a room full of
them, cheap. Plus little black & white TV sets and cassette recorders.
I
donated mine to my grade school.
But not the Advanced BASIC cartridge, which would
have made them useful.
Yeah. That would have been nice. A disk drive and that
cartridge
might have made a big difference.