Subj : Hobbies?
To : Dumas Walker
From : Zombie Mambo
Date : Wed Jun 26 2019 12:07 pm
Re: Hobbies?
By: Dumas Walker to ZOMBIE MAMBO on Tue Jun 25 2019 05:58 pm
> > One hobby that never suffered was home computers and my love for the
> > TI-99/4(a) which was my first computer.
>
> I had one of those when I was younger, and still have it. Back then, we
> had an old color TV set we hooked it up to, and used an off-brand cassette
> recorder from Kmart. About the only two fancy things we had then were a
> speach synth and an Extended Basic cartridge.
>
> > Over the past 2 yrs I've collected:
> > 1. a full TI with expansion box, 2 drives, modem, sketch board, and about
> > modules and an official TI cassette recorder.
>
> Within the past 10 years, I have collected an expansion box with one floppy
> drive, a Hitachi monitor, the official cassette recorder, and a few extra
> carts. The box came with some modules in it. The one I really wanted was
> the one that arrived DOA.
>
> I played with it some after I got the expansion box, but have not fired it
> up in probably over a year now. It is sitting on a desk behind me.
>
If you want to sell that expansion drive and box and they are working, let me
know...
