9 Jun
1997
9 Jun
'97
6:44 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Bill Whitson wrote:
Not along the same topic but I'm curious - just
how
popular was the TI99. From what I've seen scrounging
over the years it looks like it might have been the
most popular (or at least most numerous) micro ever made.
Now, I know that's not true. It's just strange - I
could go out this weekend and easily come home with 30-
40 of these machines, wait a month or two and probably do
it again. There's one local junk store here that had
11 of them lying around when last I checked. They're
like roaches ;).
Personally, my opinion of the TI-99/4a varies from stupid piece of shit
to semi-decent machine. Today I feel like stupid piece of shit. It was
almost completely closed, it's BASIC sucked and was slow, it's keyboard
sucked, and if it wasn't for the hordes of TI-99 faithfuls it would've
been just a footnote. I don't understand what the big attraction was,
but then, I came from the world of Apple ][, to which nothing could
compare (uh oh, here come the holy wars).
Sam
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