Kanati... the Coleco ADAM!!!!!
now that was a strange one... high speed tape drives... near the end, you could buy em... that gigantic box with everything in it but the monitor (computer, printer, tape drives, keyboard, manuals, etc) for $49...
... or was it $149??? :)
anyways... they were dirt cheap... and underneath they could run CP/M and via c you could access the video memory directly... the same chip that the TI used (i think)...
but god help you if you ever tried to print something after everyone went to bed... that impact printer sounded like gunshots going off when it was working...
hey, look on ebay for a lot of inexpensive TI stuff...
**nostalgia note ** my first software sales were for the TI-99/4A Graphics Expander, Basi-Calc99, E-Files99, and PageWriter99... way back around 1985....
those were some fun times... when you could publish software in a plastic baggie, with an 8 1/2 by 11 page folded in half as the cover and manual... and stores like J&R Music World (before they branched to become J&R Computers) in NYC would sell you stuff on consignment...
... we'll never see anything like those times again.
--Mike
now that was a strange one... high speed tape drives... near the end, you could buy em... that gigantic box with everything in it but the monitor (computer, printer, tape drives, keyboard, manuals, etc) for $49...
... or was it $149??? :)
anyways... they were dirt cheap... and underneath they could run CP/M and via c you could access the video memory directly... the same chip that the TI used (i think)...
but god help you if you ever tried to print something after everyone went to bed... that impact printer sounded like gunshots going off when it was working...
hey, look on ebay for a lot of inexpensive TI stuff...
**nostalgia note ** my first software sales were for the TI-99/4A Graphics Expander, Basi-Calc99, E-Files99, and PageWriter99... way back around 1985....
those were some fun times... when you could publish software in a plastic baggie, with an 8 1/2 by 11 page folded in half as the cover and manual... and stores like J&R Music World (before they branched to become J&R Computers) in NYC would sell you stuff on consignment...
... we'll never see anything like those times again.
--Mike