Tursi Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Ksarul said: I believe there is a development kit out there that allows folks to write their own code to use it (I'm not sure who wrote the tools, Rob Patton?). So it is some hardware that can use some more love. . . Mr Boone, I believe! mbx.zip I never tried to use it though... 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Wow. Seems like a pretty comprehensive set of routines callable from XB. This is some juicy stuff. Dangit. Just when I thought I'd safely talked myself out of ever blowing money on one of these things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fimbulvetr Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I have had the same ebay searches for years to find ti99 related equipment, and they have always returned pretty well only ti99 equipment. Since yesterday my ebay saved search feed has been completely overwhelmed by ti calculators. I don't know if ebay changed the search algorithm or what, but it is annoying. They are all from different sellers, so it is not someone spamming the system. Anyone else notice a change to their search feeds recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 Someone wanted a real printer port or RS-232 to go with their TIPI the other day. Well, here is an opportunity to get a << CorComp Micro expansion system >>. The asking price is a little high, but he does take offers. You'll have to probably disable your TIPI's 32K, but this unit apparently comes WITHOUT a floppy drive controller, so that may give you some bargaining room, but since you have a TIPI, who needs the FDC right? Actually it would be cool if you could fit the TIPI and Rpi inside this case! For the more adept at soldering, you could have one kick-a super system that looks cool too! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 (edited) The is a PGRAM+ on EBAY for anyone wanting a piece of history! HERE and a CorComp Tripletech HERE Edited June 1, 2020 by Shift838 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 Nice! A Triple Tech Card with the speech onboard no less. Good catch for someone if it goes for the current price. It looks nice and clean too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 Did anyone here get the PGRAM card on the buy it now? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 for who can be interested, here the link of some of my stuff listed on ebay, lot of other stuff will be listed next days / weeks https://www.ebay.it/sch/ti99iuc/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_ipg&_from&fbclid=IwAR1BrKLkBqEW_YeItMiw3WrgpyV2fnQVEfQ_GS7NQd55Iqxtn3cHXMccTWg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 3 hours ago, ti99iuc said: for who can be interested, here the link of some of my stuff listed on ebay, lot of other stuff will be listed next days / weeks https://www.ebay.it/sch/ti99iuc/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_ipg&_from&fbclid=IwAR1BrKLkBqEW_YeItMiw3WrgpyV2fnQVEfQ_GS7NQd55Iqxtn3cHXMccTWg that Tachyon 32k memory expansion looks like the one I sold on ebay many,many years ago to someone in Europe (after I fried I original TI99). Since there weren't too many of those things made I wonder if that is the same one? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Something interesting I discovered in a recent auction. A seller had a PEB on sale with four TI cards in it--but one didn't have a label or the wires at the ends for card removal. The card was the disk controller--and when I opened the case up this morning, my suspicion was confirmed: the mystery card was a TI DSDD controller card. I haven't tested it yet, but it definitely a nice find nonetheless. That's the second one of these to show up in a PEB auction since the beginning of the year, so they are still out there. . .if you know what to look for. It turns out that the auction was doubly interesting. Turtles noticed that the speech synthesizer in the auction was one of the early ones with the speech module connector installed. . .so now I can tick one more item off of my list of missing things to look for. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 8 hours ago, Ksarul said: the mystery card was a TI DSDD controller card. I haven't tested it yet, but it definitely a nice find nonetheless. Would you be willing to take some good quality photos of the card? I'm sure many of us would enjoy seeing one, even if we will never own one. And of course, for true historical purposes, we all need to see one with our own eyes to confirm, what has become to many of us, nothing more than an Urban Legend about something in the wild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 10 hours ago, hloberg said: that Tachyon 32k memory expansion looks like the one I sold on ebay many,many years ago to someone in Europe (after I fried I original TI99). Since there weren't too many of those things made I wonder if that is the same one? Hey, well it could be possible of course, i purchased from USA many of years ago indeed at least, you can see it better here now i done pictures and scans in hires of the PCB http://www.ti99iuc.it/web/index.php?pageid=database_cerca&archivioid=233#.XuIdIkUzaUk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 2 hours ago, ti99iuc said: Hey, well it could be possible of course, i purchased from USA many of years ago indeed at least, you can see it better here now i done pictures and scans in hires of the PCB http://www.ti99iuc.it/web/index.php?pageid=database_cerca&archivioid=233#.XuIdIkUzaUk I would say then there is high probability that one was mine. small world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Here's a somewhat uncommon book, as the only way to get one BITD was to order it directly from Compute! Price is reasonable too. . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 << Here's a TI magazine >> I never heard of on Ebay right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 Here could be a very useful purchase for someone not willing to wait for the new one to come to fruition. << CAP replacement Kits! >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Omega-TI said: << Here's a TI magazine >> I never heard of on Ebay right now. I think there were a total of five issues of this one. Bill Gaskill brought it to my attention about 20 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 The scans for the first three issues (including the two pictured) are on WHT and can be found on archive.org here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=mini mag 99 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Also currently advertised on Ebay: the rare and valuable "Vader" TI-99: Put your pants back on TI! You're drunk! 4 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 9 hours ago, pixelpedant said: Put your pants back on TI! You're drunk! It ain't a party until someone's silver lining comes off. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehridian Sanders Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Kinda looks good all black ... But without that aluminium... Its naked. How many other delorean fans do we have in here? That's really gonna be my midlife crisis mobileSent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 37 minutes ago, Mehridian Sanders said: How many other delorean fans do we have in here? Shameless self-promotion: https://locu.li/tMek 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 I've got one of those - the little legs that attach the aluminum trim to the case broke off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 I do think it looks kind of cool without the aluminum. I'm curious just how a completely cleaned up, good condition system would look, in that state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehridian Sanders Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 9 hours ago, pixelpedant said: I do think it looks kind of cool without the aluminum. I'm curious just how a completely cleaned up, good condition system would look, in that state. I had an Idea a while back about 3D printing a chassis modification, it would go in between the top and bottom of the chassis and allow for more components to be contained within. It would only increase thickness by 1.5". your idea has revived my creativity on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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