TI-99/4A Hall of SHAME (found on the Internet)

[Omega-TI]

This is the thread to post photos you find around the Internet of abused, abandoned, or defiled TI's.

 

Here's one to start it off. First it looks a little 'rough', but it's sitting UNUSED on a shelf with toys.

 

Let's all have a moment of silence...

[+Schmitzi]

..I think I found his box, but was able to save it:

 

 

[Omega-TI]

Ugh! Just looking at that box makes me think of dead spiders and the carcasses of multiple bugs inside.

[+Schmitzi]

♫ ♫ Am I living in a box, ♫^tataaa♫ Am I living in a cardboard box ♫ ♫

[BassGuitari]

One of my wife's shitty cats (redundant statement as all cats are shitty) pissed on my otherwise pristine TI box...does that count?

It actually cleaned up pretty well, except for the subtle stain and the faint, faint smell that will probably never come completely out, ever. Honestly you probably wouldn't know a cat peed on it if I didn't tell you, but just knowing that some garbage monkey whizzed on it grosses me the hell out, and I can't store my TI or anything else in it.

[+Schmitzi]

...what a TI-ger

[+OLD CS1]

My parent's dog pissed on my Tempest arcade cabinet.

[+Schmitzi]

last year I found that, could restore it, and give him a good home

[Flottmann1]

have you been in the Sahara Desert with this TI ?

[Omega-TI]

last year I found that, could restore it, and give him a good home

 

That's just a sad looking little orphan in need of a good home for sure.

 

I had a photo of a real thrashed one a year or two ago, that IMHO was worth of being classified as a crime. And if that was not bad enough, some guy asked me if that was MY TI. Oh gawd! I'll see if I can find the image....

[Omega-TI]

Sorry, this was the only image I could procure of it...

 

[+Schmitzi]

have you been in the Sahara Desert with this TI ?

 

hmmm, I think it was in the mid-80´s, when I just was on a trail, and I had forgotten to take it out of my car

[+OLD CS1]

Sorry, this was the only image I could procure of it...

 

 

You know, I actually do not hate the mix of beige and black keys...

[+Ksarul]

I like it too--I may have to make one look like that. . .

[+Schmitzi]

yes, maybe like a chess-board ?

[Gazoo]

Neh - mix bad.

[Omega-TI]

I did find one photo of a TI that looks to have been painted and surprisingly (at least in this photo) it does not look half bad...

 

[+OLD CS1]

Difficult to tell what that is. Obviously the old silver/black body, but how and what was done to it (other than the obvious paint job.) I am not able to even tell what color that is supposed to be, but it is interesting.

[+Schmitzi]

hmm, it´s not bad, but I think thats maybe more a question of taste.

In my view, the work on it counts, the dedication.

 

Here some pics of good work like that, some of you will know them:

(these "toxic paints" on FB)

 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.350512835140676.1073741849.326551627536797&type=3

[+OLD CS1]

hmm, it´s not bad, but I think thats maybe more a question of taste.

In my view, the work on it counts, the dedication.

 

Here some pics of good work like that, some of you will know them:

(these "toxic paints" on FB)

 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.350512835140676.1073741849.326551627536797&type=3

 

Any way to view these without a Facebook account?

[budz2355]

 

Any way to view these without a Facebook account?

 

Here you are.

[+OLD CS1]

Huh... a beige PEB. How about that.

[+Schmitzi]

 

Any way to view these without a Facebook account?

 

yes, you should be able to see full size, and all comments from FB-users, on first click.

(already clicked there ? I have tested it, seems to work. if not, please let me know)

 

 

 

Huh... a beige PEB. How about that.

 

yeah, beige, like the beige TI

[+OLD CS1]

 

yes, you should be able to see full size, and all comments from FB-users, on first click.

(already clicked there ? I have tested it, seems to work. if not, please let me know)

 

My firewall rules prevent me from visiting social network sites and most "sharing" sites. Not a big deal, usually.

[Omega-TI]

Apparently a TS1000 stuffed into the TI case. Obviously a step up for the Timex. (TImess?)

It's written the valves were supposedly going to be used for the units analog audio amplifier.