Apparently, there is a significant following of people who still have them.
A few months ago I received an email from a guy who, through an internet
search, tracked me down and asked if I was "THE" Joe Curry who was
associated with the 99/4 having seen a mention that I used to work for TI on
one of the discussion lists.
He invited me to join his devoted group but since I donated all my TI
hardware to a charity group many years ago, I declined. I had a copy at one
point of every game module that was ever produced for that system.
Joe C.
-----Original Message-----
From: Norlin Engineering [mailto:norlinengineering@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:11 AM
To: 'Joe Curry'; 'Bill Babcock'; 'David W. Riddle'
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Fot] State of F1
I had a 99/4a and thought it was great. A couple of years ago I dug it out
of storage and gave it to my daughter who wanted to play "Hunt the Wumpus"
again.
-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Joe Curry
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:21 AM
To: 'Bill Babcock'; 'David W. Riddle'
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] State of F1
Did anybody out there have a Texas Instruments Home Computer (99/4)? I
wrote the Technical Reference manual for that product back in 1979.
Joe C.
-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Bill Babcock
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:45 AM
To: David W. Riddle
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] State of F1
I have an Osborne 1 blocking part of the stairway to my shop. All the
rest of my ancient hardware went to the dump long ago. The Osborne
still works (if you can call it that).
On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:20 AM, David W. Riddle wrote:
> At 07:50 AM 10/23/2008, Bill Babcock wrote:
>> I think we must have been hanging out in the same places. George
>> Morrow (Morrow Computers, one of the early CP/M brands) said way
>> back in the 70's "Anyone who believes what programmers say deserves
>> what happens to them".
>
> There's a name from the wayback machine. I have two systems on a
> shelf in the garage that run CP/M. A Victor 9000 that an Uncle of
> mine designed. Runs both CP/M 86 and MS-DOS. The 5 MB hard drive
> in one of them is running MS-DOS 1.25j. Maybe a Vintage Processing
> class?
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