I have dim memories of going to a show in San Francisco’s Brooks Hall(?) called TI-Fest. It was a show all for TI’s home computers and they had the speech synthesizer and some kind of expansion chassis and lots of other stuff. My dad was looking for a home computer that me and my brother could use, so he brought us along. The show was exciting, at least that’s the way I remember it. There was this feeling that something big was happening.
Dad ended up buying an Atari 800 instead of a 99/4A. It was a good decision.