Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!ulysses!burl!clyde!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!alt From: alt@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Request for TI 99/4A info Message-ID: <1960@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 17:42:57 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1960 Posted: Mon Feb 6 17:42:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 23:22:10 EST References: inuxc.910 Lines: 22 Building "home-brew type hardware" for the TI 99/4A is problematic because TI, bless their greedy little hearts, installed Device Service Routines in ROM on the peripheral cards. Even if you built your RS232 none of your software would recognize it as being in existence. On the brighter side, TI's bail out may be the best thing that ever happened to the 99/4A. Corcomp has apparently purchased the rights to the 99/4A hardware from TI and have already shipped the first of their RS232 cards for about $80. Of course there is always the problem of where do you put said card. Finding TI expansion boxes is none too easy these days. Rumor has it that Corcomp is also coming out with a super expansion box with on-board dual density disk controller, RS232 and Centronics ports, and 32K Memory expansion. The box will have 3 empty slots for additional memory or whatever. The rumored price is slightly over $300 retail. Vive the TI Underground, Larry ][-:-[]^~p ~p