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  1. Craig George Miller: Dec 16, 1950 - Sep 21, 2009 at Sandia Park, NM. In the late 80's early 90's he was writing custom databases using DBase. Sometime later they sold the condo at San Dimas and went on the road doing ISF Calibrations on MITS TV's across the nation. You'll find his name in several threads in the AVSforum web site in the early 2000's. We exchanged a few emails around that time. A few years later his website had a posting that he was retiring from that endeavor since their daughter had just had a baby and they wanted to set down roots again near her. It was several years later that I found out he had passed in 2009. I never did find an obit and forgot about this until this was mentioned here.
  2. 3. Which languages do you program in (click all that apply) None
  3. http://ftp.whtech.com/user groups/Lehigh/ if that is the group you're looking for
  4. Various sizes of floppy disks are on there, some reasonable and 1 not so. Also a 4/A and some carts in a flip top case. Search for Texas Instrument w/o the S.
  5. she's right..... Darrly David Dhein is 83 and probably still alive. Don't know about his health. He opened the store in 1974 per an article in the local newspaper. Dec 2013 there are 2 ads for Corn Belt Auctions for the entire store. The TI stuff looked to be a drop in a bucket in the listing. And 'A Ace Computer' is/was also a Dhein business in Waterloo.
  6. http://ftp.whtech.com/emulators/pc99/pc99 dsk collection/TISoftwareLibrary/BBS Software/Scott Darling/ has some assembly code for TE2 checking, but limited to changing screen color only. You will also find CARDET code in there as well. Since pin 8 of modems was DCD output and the TI RS232 pin 8 was output. He used TI RS232 pin19 wired to Pin 8 of the modem..... it worked as I ran that software back then.
  7. Well.... here's an old photo.... Circa 1985 thereabouts....
  8. Back in 1990 I was a Business Telco installer. I had an order at a local "Alternative" school and had to goto the basement. I passed by several class rooms and glanced at one and did a double take. In that room were 20 or so CDC 4A's with PEB's. On the way out I stopped and talked to the teacher. His only complaint was the students were not gentle on the floppys and of course he couldn't make copies. I couldn't help as I no longer had a 4A. Several years later I stopped by and asked about the 4A's and of course they did not know what happened to them. Probably made it to a landfill.....
  9. https://atariage.com/forums/topic/280178-rich-polivka/ do you know where he lives?
  10. http://www.frontx.com/ is a company that makes various types of ports for internal and external configurations. The USB ports are mounted on a small piece of plastic and using the internal connector you might be able to use them.
  11. Noticed this one today https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/7082975 Munchman, Adventure and Miner 2049. Auction starts at $29.99 but 1 cent shipping. There are 3 4/A's up there as well. 2 with IOB and the beige one doesn't look like it was dragged down a dirt road.
  12. https://www.livingcomputers.org/ Is in Seattle and has a 4A console that can be played with. Its been several years since I was there last, so who knows what is there now. https://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/home.php is a search engine. '99/4A' gets 45 hits, 'Texas Instruments' gets lots of hits. I especially like this one: How to build your own working 16-bit microcomputer / (Book) Library of Congress Call No : TK9969 .T7 1979 Main Entry-Personal Name : Tracton, Ken Title Statement : How to build your own working 16-bit microcomputer / Ken Tracton , 1979. Publication Distribution Data : Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Tab Books, Inc. , 1979. Physical Description : 95 p.: ill ; 8.25 in. Summary Note : Manual for using the Texas Instruments 9900 CPU single-chip processor to build a "super powerful" microcomputer. Subject-Topical Term : Microcomputers Subject-Topical Term : Modems Index Term-Genre/Form : Books 844 : Documentation
  13. I'm running Win10 pro x64.... renamed k2.dsk to !k2.dsk, copied it my NAS and TIDIR opened it with no problem.
  14. I've never tried to do this on my QNAP NAS...... So I did, I copied a .dsk file to a folder and TIDIR version 6.4a opened it without a squawk. I have an old WDCLOUD and 3 other desktops on my network TIDIR opened a .dsk file on them as well. NOW, I have my NAS setup as JBOD..... cuz I was too lazy to decide what RAID level I wanted to install. AND I do not have remote access turned on either. Have you tried mapping a network drive to that folder? That's about all I know about a NAS....
  15. ya mean like this one..... http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/usb/usb.html
  16. I've never heard of what you are talking about, a USB bridge of sorts.... You might be thinking of this company that is long gone: Cecure Electronics Inc. c/o Don Walden, P.O. Box 132, Muskego, WI 53150, for orders/sales write to P.O. Box 2, Muskego, WI 53150-0002, 1-800-959-9640 (ORDERS ONLY 9AM - 5PM M-F), (414) 422-1010, BBS (414) 422-9669, TECH Line (414) 422-994A, FAX (414) 422-9889 (Texas Instruments TI99, CC40 and Myarc Authorized Repair Centers, sales of MBP, MBPII Clock and ADC cards as well as SNUG products from Germany including HSGPL, HSGPLII, EVPC 80 column card and SGCPU cards...)
  17. Guess I can't delete a message
  18. M=meg m=milli either way we know what he was driving at....
  19. Now this would compliment your 4A collection.... Colorado Springs, CO local pickup only.... https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/66510905
  20. For all of you hoarders er collectors.... https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/65649524 A FULL 4A with what appears a FULL? PEB (can't see the front so who knows if it has a floppy drive or two), a few carts and a mystery item.... 49 lbs shipped. located in Tucson, AZ.
  21. I have an Antec 700W and it states it has 4 +12V 30A rails, 1 +5V 18A and 1 -12V rail. I looked at a Thermaltake 1500W and it has 1 +12V rail at 150A. Guess it all depends on what brand and wattage you have and how much you need in the PEB.
  22. On shopgoodwill today are 3 basic black and silver 4/A's with extras (no PEB) of carts and a joystick and a Speak & Math, a Speak & Spell, and a Speak & Read. And about 100 calculators of various models. Shipping is usually cheaper than Fleabay. just sayin'
  23. http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ Fred Kaal's site has a 64a version: v6.4a Added: viewer.cpp: Shift-f3 for opening a DIS/FIX 128 file in the viewer containing FORTH screens/blocks. When F3 is used and it is a DIS/FIX 128 file and the first three blocks of 1024 bytes are all printable characters and it contains at least one : ; combination it is assumed to be a FORTH screens/blocks file. (maybe a bit to simple like this) Lots of good stuff to peruse on his site....
  24. The only problem with The Orphan Chronicles is it was written in 1985. I'm sure there is a lot of history past that year. I've used https://www.worldcat.org/for genealogy over the years as it provides a worldwide location service for various types of physical media. I've used it mostly for books. So, I plugged in The Orphan Chronicles and I got a hit at Held formats Distance 1. Queensborough Community College Library Bayside, NY 11364 United States Book 2100 miles Map It Library info Add to favorites When I scrolled down the screen I saw this Related Subjects:(2) TI 99/4A (Computer) Texas Instruments Incorporated. Clicking on the first link brought up a list of 132 items. Scrolling through the list I saw several titles I had never heard of. All of them were in the 1979-1985 time frame so they may not be very useful for a TI History. If you have a local library card and the library participates in the lending program. The OCLC number is used to move items between library's. FWIW it was an interesting read.
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