On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, David Williams wrote:
While cataloging this huge pile of TI and Amiga stuff
I recently
received, I took a moment to flip through some of the stacks of old
magazines that were with it. I noticed a 5 & 10 meg hard drives for
the TI. That's interesting I thought but what really caught my eye
was the add from Morning Star Software for a CP/M processor
board for the 99/4A. 5 MHz 8085, 64K RAM with 8K ROM. Has
anyone ever seen one of these or any other coprocessor boards for
the 99? I've always had a fascination with coprocessor cards for
different systems. There was a 6809 card for the Apple II I would
have killed for years ago. I'd assume these 99/4A CP/M boards
would be few and far between.
There weren't that many of these TI CP/M boards made. They were expensive
(about $500 or so for the board, if I recall correctly--not including
disk drives) and you were still stuck with the TI's wierd keyboard and
40-column screen...besides, these came out around the time that TI
was getting out of the "home computer" business anyway (although
the machine was still moderately popular for about a decade or so
after that).