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The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A

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mkovach ◴[] No.43113965[source]
I had one of these growing up, until it was replace with a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack. Well, I kept it around until I moved into my second house.

I had TI Forth, the huge accessory box, a disk drive, the works. It was fun, I learned quite a bit and have forgotten most of the Forth that I learned.

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abecedarius ◴[] No.43116619[source]
I had a similar setup eventually with Wycove Forth -- can't remember even the existence of TI Forth. Anyway playing with that was my foot in the door to a summer job at FORTH, Inc. as a teen.

Lost all of that code because my 99 system got stolen a few years later.

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1. mkovach ◴[] No.43117611[source]
Oh man!

I still booted my system up occasionally when I had it to remind myself that you didn't have to write HUGE programs to do stuff.

Now, I want to write a text adventure game again. Where are my Turbo Pascal disks?