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Here is a complete ti setup with a kitted out PEB for sale in Ottawa http://www.kijiji.ca/v-old-video-games/ottawa/texas-instruments-vintage-complete-setup/1195833493?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

Because the TI is AWESOME. That, and there ain't anywhere else to go if you are a TI fan. I am into apple as well, but I do most of my posting on the 68kmla forums for those.

But it's only $60 if you live in Canada!

Fully kitted out PEB in British Columbia, starting bid $50. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/TI994A-Peripheral-Expansion-Box-PEB-Two-525-Disk-Drives-Accessories-/272531376429

Best I've managed so far is 135. This version does have a frustratingly slow response, especially to rotation.

Replacement for the firehose... something more compact.

Speech synthesizer in the PEB.

Ehh. Best I've managed so far is 28177 (real iron)

I have one of those extension cables and have nothing but trouble with it, due to the two pieces of circuit board stuck into one end to make a male connector. The slightest jostle and it stops working, and is super fiddely to get working again. It wasn't cheap with shipping to Canada, either.

Hey Greg.. did you ever get a chance to pick up this project again?

I would definitely be interested in a new PEB interface that wasn't so bulky. It would be great to not have that big chunk o plastic sticking out of the side of the TI. I never could understand why they went with that ridiculous design.

A PEB with ... a CorComp triple tech card? http://www.ebay.ca/itm/TI994A-Peripheral-Expansion-Box-PEB-PHP1200-wCards-Flex-Cable-Interface-/112166357280

I have 5 ti-99/4a's (all black and silver) which work fine. In fact, all of my Texas Instruments hardware (cartridges, speech synthesizers, PEB, etc) except for 1 cartridge still work. The other 80's computers I have are a TRS-80 Model 100, Apple IIc, and Macintosh SE and they all work perfectly. In my experience 1990's computers are much less reliable than 80's machines/

Have you made a choice? If you are still looking for ideas: midnight mason, Bigfoot, the attack, road hunter, burger time, Neverlander, sabre wulf....

With my HP t5510 thin client, I used a usb hard drive with a 1 gb fat partition to transfer data. Loads up in dos no problem. That and a usb floppy drive. I haven't tried my usb cd rom drive yet. Flash pen drives don't work though. I've used both a 2 gb disk on module and a 44 pin laptop hard drive as the main drive for it. I've set it up with dos 6.1 and Windows 3.1, dos 7 and Windows 3.1 , and Windows 98, no problems except getting it to run in svga in dos/win 3.1. Win 3.1 doesn't like usb floppy drives, but no problem with dos.

I am going to try converting an old thin client to a dos computer again. My last attempt was an HP T5510. I got dos and win 3.1 running on it no problem, but I couldn't get it to run in svga, and of course no sound blaster, just the built in speaker. This time I'm going to use a Neoware CA2, which has one expansion slot which will take an ISA or a PCI card, and the video is S3 Savage. My plan is to use an ISA sound blaster 16 card and replace the Disk on Module with a 44 pin 2.5" hard drive.

No sound blaster, and I cannot get mine to run svga in dos or win 3.1 for the life of me.

Midnight Mason

The floppyemu works with all types of vintage Apple computers, and has a nice screen so you can see which disk image you are loading. I use mine with my IIc and SE/30. http://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/

I had the same problem with mine and the little cut up pieces. If I carefully wiggle them and line them it works as long as I'm careful about not budging it.

Midnight Mason?

I have a few 68k macs - SE/30, SE, Classic II. .. I love the things, they are a lot of fun. 68kmla.org is an excellent resource and a very active community if you are planning on diving in.

I regularily use a Tandy WP-2 to take notes and keep minutes at work. I like the instant- on and long battery life, and it has a decent keyboard.

"Alley Cat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Cat_(video_game) If I had the programming skills Alley Cat would be my first choice to port over. I spent a lot of time back in the day playing that game.

This looks like an interesting setup: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/TI99-4a-Grom-Rom-simulator-modified-console-software-/252211944796?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276