On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Adam Jenkins wrote:
  A simple question - was the Texas Instruments Compact
Computer - the CC-40
 - ever produced?  I have some photos in a book here, and it looks neat, but
 I have never heard of them and have no idea if they are available
 second-hand. 
Yes - I have one of these.  Unfortunately, it seems to be full of cold
solder joints (there was even a loose transistor rattling inside the case
when I first got it) and I haven't had a chance to go over the board with
a soldering iron yet.  It is much smaller than an M100 and has
calculator-like keys with grooves cut between them to make the keyboard
appear larger.  The display is a single-line (40 character?) LCD.  It has
been a while since I looked inside it, but I seem to remember 6 Kbytes of
static RAM.  BASIC is in ROM, and there is a slot for an additional ROM
cartridge. There was also a "WaferTape" storage device (somewhat like a
Sinclair microdrive, IIRC) made for this machine.
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