[Shotimes] OT - ISDN Anyone?

[Donald Mallinson]

Ron,

I don't think this is the one you were thinking about, but 
Texas Instruments had an early computer with game carts.

I had this as my first "computer". I learned basic and word 
processing on it, did letters for my business at the time on 
a daisy wheel typewriter (Olympia, still have two of them!) 
with perf paper.  I would start a 1000 letter job and go to 
lunch, coming back an hour later with the job not quite done 
and fanfold letters all over the floor!

The Texas instruments was a cool setup, with that expansion 
box separate from the keyboard.  The game port was part of 
the keyboard.

I had dual DSDD disk drives, the expansion memory (64k?  or 
maybe the huge 128k?) and a couple of other things.

I advertised the thing for sale about 10 years ago when it 
was old then, with about 20-30 games, an extra console and 
all the other software on disk.  Got about $150 for it and 
was called a sales genius by several people at the time, you 
probably remember it, that might have been about the time 
Prodigy fell through as the SHO site.  Wonder if that TI 
computer/game thing is worth any more today?

we were all on the "cutting" edge of the consumer side of 
computing then with the real computer geeks one step ahead, 
as they are now (at least for me).

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:
> Mattel made the Intellivision.
> 
> In fact, I have one sitting in my basement, with about 20 game cartridges.
> 
> In the early '80s, the Intellivision was "the" game! It was rather pricey,
> as were the cartridges. I had been meaning on giving it away for years, but
> I fired it up last year one time and it worked, so I'll just hang on to it
> for nostalgia!!
> 
> I can't remember the main competitor to Intellivision, though. There was one
> other game console out that was big at the time.
> 
> Ron Porter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Ron Childs
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 11:09 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - ISDN Anyone?
> 
> 
> My roomate at the time ('80 ish) had an Intellivision which I think was
> made by Magnavox. Sort of in-between Pong and Game Cube.  :-)
> 
> -Ron
> 
> 
> --- George Fourchy <krazgeo@jps.net> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:39:30 -0400, Noah South III wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I do have an Atari 2600, although last time I plugged it in it didn't
>>
>>work.
>>
>>>Still have all my games for it too, wonder if I could sell them on
>>
>>e-bay?
>>
>>I remember back in the early '80s, or maybe it was 1980....Atari came
>>out with the
>>5200, which was really hot(!) at the time.  There was a space travel
>>game that
>>looked fairly interesting..you could hyperdrive to different parts of
>>the galaxy,
>>and you'd refuel at space gas stations spread all around.  Sort of Star
>>Trekish....
> 
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