[Shotimes] OT - ISDN Anyone?

[Donald Mallinson]

I think you are right on the Ti 99/4.

REally a nice set-up and you could get a magazine with 
software tips, code you can write, etc.  I had all the 
magazines for several years all in cases that went with the 
unit.

Don Mallinson

Jim and Debbie Leyden wrote:
> Don,
> 
> That wouldn't have been the TI 99/4 would it?
> 
> I had one of those too!
> 
> Jim
> '93 MTX
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 11:54 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT - ISDN Anyone?
> 
> 
> 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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