TI-99/4A Home Computer

One day I unearthed my TI computer for a little nostalgia and fun, and set it up in my studio after several years in storage.

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Entertainment

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• Texas
• Instruments
• TI
• 99
• TI-99/4A
• Peripheral
• Expansion
• Blasto
• Slymoids

[resmediamarketing]

Thanks for the videos and the memories.......... But how does it feel to have wasted your Youth on the TI994A?!

c64 for life BIT*H!!!!!

[theincrediblepeep]

@resmediamarketing Ah, I've spent a little time behind the Commodore 64 as well.  I didn't own it myself, so... my bonus points revoked. :)

[ionmyke]

Great video! I scored one at the local goodwill along with the recorder, both great condition in their boxes. Also grabbed a TI-99 to rca cable off goodwill, can't wait to start messing around with it!

[theincrediblepeep]

@ionmyke Good luck and have fun! The 99 was a unique and charming morsel of home computing for its time. Admittedly, it's hard to keep a system so large set up in one place for any extended period of time. I just got Puchicon (BASIC programming language) on my 3DS, and it takes me right back to those days of making funny little blocky games and animations on the TI.

[den2003]

Mr Bojangles, anyone?! LOL

[theincrediblepeep]

@den2003 Who could forget that favorite of favorites, TI's 8x8 little man, walking his pixel legs into the home computing hall of fame.

[slapdaddy1234]

Loved this machine. Used to do simple programming on it from the old computer magazines when I was 9. Pretty elegant design for the time, too lol.

[theincrediblepeep]

@Segasaturn95 good fortune! I have run across the plastic ones here and there, very cool. You'll notice mine had a replacement beige keyboard, like the plastic case systems, instead of its original black keyboard with white letters.

[theincrediblepeep]

@myclanders I can relate to that. At the time, I knew only like 3 other people that had a TI-99, which is actually a lot. I lived in a small town near New Orleans, and when I got that little Speech Synthesizer parcel in the mail from Lubbock, TX, it felt like the most delightful thing a kid of age 12 could get!

[myclanders]

I noticed Lubbock TX on the shipping label. Mine was a hand me down from Dallas. This makes me wonder, how far from TI did these things go? Worldwide I'm sure, but I'm the only person I can think of that even knows what this is. Just a thought, meaningless as it may be. lol

[Segasaturn95]

My grandparents found one of these the other day and mailed it to me as a Christmas present. They told me that they were going to do it, but what they didn't tell me is that it has its original box. That box is now on display in my room, and the computer itself is hooked up to the TV.

Mine is a later model than yours- it's plastic instead of metal.

[jimhale777]

Dislikes?

Really?

Good work.