sauer@dell.dell.com (Charlie Sauer) (12/05/89)
I went over to my daughter's elementary school today to try to help them get
a printer working on a 99/4A. I don't think I'd ever had any hands on
experience with one before. The teacher said something about them being big
and clunky and wondering why they still wanted to use them. (They have about
12-16 of them with expansion cabinets.) I never got the printer working.
I started to tell the teacher that they seemed totally obsolete to me and I
would avoid any further expense related to them. This lab has at least as
many IIGS's, so it seems to me that they're better off forgetting about the
99's, even if that means heavier use/contention with the II's.
My recollection is that TI stopped making the 99's about 5 years ago?
Am I missing something here? Is there some reason why they should spend
money on these instead of the II's?
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(512) 343-3310ka2czu@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (robert.switzer) (12/05/89)
From article <4571@dell.dell.com>, by sauer@dell.dell.com (Charlie Sauer): > I went over to my daughter's elementary school today to try to help them get > a printer working on a 99/4A. I don't think I'd ever had any hands on > experience with one before. The teacher said something about them being big ... > Am I missing something here? Is there some reason why they should spend > money on these instead of the II's? > -- > Charlie Sauer Dell Computer Corp. !'s:uunet!dell!sauer > 9505 Arboretum Blvd @'s:sauer@dell.com > Austin, TX 78759-7299 > (512) 343-3310 Charlie, I don't think you're missing anything here. If they already have a load of Apple's then future expenditures should start taking advantage of that software base. There are some other considerations, however, such as (1) There are supply houses for TI computers including some new hardware support, some new software, and almost all of the original hardware and software. One place is located in California at 1(818) 366-6631...Tex Comp. There is also Triton at 1(800) 227-6900 and TENEX Computer Express at 1*800 348-2778 (2) if they don't have to lay out more cash, then just using the TI's for extra learning tools is still valuable...depending on the software that they are using and/or have available. I have a printer for my TI/99 at home. It is an Epson compatible and works with a MYARC RS232 card (one the 3rd party TI compatible cards). I use the serial port with a modem simultaneously with the parallel port for the printer. Hope that helps. Peace, Robert Switzer AT&T Bell Labs -- Robert Switzer (201)949-0057 AT&T, Crawford Corner Rd. Rm. HO2K318, Holmdel, NJ 07733