[net.micro] Anyone ever heard of a TI99?

Chapman.ES@XEROX.COM (07/14/86)

A friend here in Southern California has one of these and is looking for
other people with it.  He'd be interested in any pointers to clubs in
the SoCal area.  He also needs a word processor.  What is available for
this machine?

Cheryl

haddock@ti-csl (07/19/86)

	/* ---------- "Anyone ever heard of a TI99?" ---------- */

	>A friend here in Southern California has one of these and is looking
	>for other people with it.  He'd be interested in any pointers to
	>clubs in the SoCal area.  He also needs a word processor.  What is
	>available for this machine?

	>Cheryl


Yes, the TI-99/4 or /4a (a later model).    Have your friend check
out "Home Computing" magazine as it's dedicated to the TI-99/4a,
Cmdr. 64, Apple ][(?), and other "home" computers.

The TI machine has since been orphaned by TI (October '83) but the
number of owners is quite large and the number of active user's
groups is still very high.  I don't know the names of any specific
group ('cept here in Dallas) as I wasn't THAT "into" the ol' machine.

					-Rusty-

P.S.  There's also the 'net.micro.ti' news/notes group.
P.P.S. Try sending mail to doug@gould9 who, I believe, is in
	San Diego. 

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lotto@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU (Jerry Lotto) (07/20/86)

Actually, a Sunday Boston Globe article this week interviewed owners of
Apple /// (or is that \\\), S100/Z80 boxes and many other discontinued
machines. They also talked with a few Sinclair users groups (they claim
to have found 20 across the country). One guy had all 4 models put out
by TI et. al. Another had picked one up at a garage sale for $2.
If anyone else has one for $2, please call me...