We also had a TI-99/4A. Our kids loved playing a math game (I think it was
Math Blaster) and several other educational games.
Carol Ebel
LMS
School District of Bonduel
Bonduel, Wisconsin
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This is a fun trip down memory lane. I hope we can hear from a few
more. My first home computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. It
hooked up to the television and had a cassette tape drive. For kicks
I looked up the specs on the Internet.
Released:June 1981
Price: US$525 (without monitor)
How many:2.8 Million
CPU:TI TMS9900, 3MHz
Memory:16K RAM, 26K ROM
Display:Video via an RF modulator
32 characters by 24 lines text
192 X 256, 16 color graphics
Ports:ROM cartridge (on front)
Data storage cassette
Audio/Video output
Joystick input
CPU bus expansion
Peripherals:Speech Synthesizer
Peripheral Expansion Box
Data storage cassette
300 baud modem
OS:ROM BASIC
This was state of the art for me back in 1981. I still have it and
my guess is that it still works. I'll have to search through the
basement and see if I still have some of the educational programs for it!!
Nancy
At 06:58 PM 1/7/2007, Robin Shtulman wrote:
>I did my master's thesis on a mac color classic [Color! I thought
>it was the cat's pajamas.] with 4 MB and an add-on program for
>footnotes. My new son-in-law begged to see it, so I dug it out. It
>still works! Yay for playing "fungus" and "crystal quest!" I was
>going to give it to him to disassemble. Now, I'm not so sure I can
>part with it! Maybe if he keeps the games and lets me come visit!
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"Big Book of Teen Reading Lists" (2006),"Big Book of Children's
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"Middle School Pathfinders" (2005);"Using Literature in the Middle
School Classroom" (2005) ;
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