TI-99/4A acquisition

My memories of this system, as a 13 year old kid, was that it was best used as a doorstop. Now, I'm not criticising anyone who has one, or collects one. Heck, I wish I still had mine... I could use a door stop or two. Basically, my dad bought the wrong thing. It cost about 1/2 what an Apple //+ would have cost, and was about 1/8 as useful. You couldn't develop any BASIC programs that ran faster than an utter crawl (and I wasn't too bad when I was 13) and to do anything in assembler required spending at least a much as a //+ on extra hardware.. the expansion box, a disk drive, more RAM, etc. If you were lucky, it might overheat and set fire to your house. Then you could claim the insurance money. On 24 February 2014 00:59, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote: -- Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: "The Future Begins Tomorrow" Visit us at: http://www.yoyodyne-propulsion.net -------- "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way "