Texas Instruments TI-99
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Me: a middle school student when this 1980s Texas Instruments commercial with Bill Cosby shilling for the TI-99 computer aired. Never athletic or romance love-machine type in school, I gravitated toward technology and tried desperately to find partners to share that interest. Whatever the role of ACORN or electronic voting machine-maker Diebold (pronounced “Dee”,not DIE) in the result, Cosby said he voted for Barack Obama in SHElburnE, MA and now Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is First Lady
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watch?v=DneHIDDFMpY: Bill Cosby links NFL QB Tim Tebow & good weather for 3/31/12 Denver date. Cosby doesn’t seem tech-savvy. Still, I wonder what he thinks about the possibility of voter fraud via electronic voting as companies like Diebold(pronounced “Dee”,not DIE) gaining popularity. On NBC’s 1/11/09 “Meet The Press with David Gregory”, he talked of pride in a SHElburnE Falls, Mass voting booth with photos of his parents & brother James, selecting Denver-nominated Barack Hussein Obama in 2008
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i got one of these today for free!! and it works!
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This looks like a very cool retro-computer. Wasn't there a computer at the time that itself cost $100? Was it a Timex-Sinclair?
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@margotdarby You mean the well know, very popular Bill Cosby.
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@7tnorris Yes they were losing money on every unit sold or made, and hoping to regain it on software sales. This is also why the cheaper beige TI-99/4A came out. The old metal one had an LED on the power switch, the cheaper one didn't. And it was marketed as being more modern, but was really to cut costs. The machine is a lot more powerful if you have the expansion box.
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$100 rebate? I'm sold! Where can I buy a TI Computer?
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BILL COSBY! I LOVE YOU! :D
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Ironsixx 3 years ago 9
@margotdarby Why Cosby? Because, rightly or wrongly, parents trusted him and felt he was honest - he didn't need any 'high tech' credibility with them - TI was aiming the ads squarely at mom and dad to buy for the kids, so Bill Cosby makes perfect sense as a computer pitchman.
lovemylogics 1 year ago 3