Omega-TI #1 Posted May 4, 2015 I came across this old photo today of my son and I on the TI! Do any of you have any special moments in time with the TI? 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vorticon #2 Posted May 4, 2015 It just struck me that I don't have a single picture of me at the TI console. Ever! Time for a selfie... 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unhuman #3 Posted May 4, 2015 Nor me. Wonder if my parents have any, but I have no recollection of a pic. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Schmitzi #4 Posted May 5, 2015 oh oh, have only this one 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+save2600 #5 Posted May 5, 2015 I came across this old photo today of my son and I on the TI! Do any of you have any special moments in time with the TI? Hey, how do we know you're actually on a TI? What program is that (looks 80 column, unlike TI)… can't see the system either. Printer waaaaay off to the right and discs in the center. Nobody I knew BITD that had a TI, had a disk drive or a printer to go with it! …should say *hardly* anybody. I had this goofy homemade looking adapter thing that plugged into the joystick port that hooked to some kind of a printer (serial?), but can't remember now if I was ever able to get it to work or work consistently. Think it was the latter. ***Also spy what looks like an iPod in the upper right hand corner of the vintage RTA computer desk. What kind of Tom Foolery is this? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Ksarul #6 Posted May 5, 2015 Ahhhhhhh, you had a Joyprint interface. . .a neat alternative to an RS-232, Save2600. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+save2600 #7 Posted May 5, 2015 Ahhhhhhh, you had a Joyprint interface. . .a neat alternative to an RS-232, Save2600. It was *neat* and a cheaper alternative to the mess that was getting RS-232 out of a TI I guess. Just didn't have too much good luck with it BITD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gary from OPA #8 Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) Sadly, I have no personal photos of me back in time, as when my dad remarried after my mom died, his new wife destoried anything to do with my past and my mom in it. But the TI99 was my family in its own way, so my special moments are still saved out there by camera operators at various TI cons over the years, here is a few of them. PDVD_000.bmpPDVD_006.bmp I think of those moments more like 'family' then my own personal ones, as I was young brat growing up thru those at that time almost monthly conferences around the world. EDIT: Hmm. seems AtariAge does not like .bmp attachments, I will have to convert them later on for you. Edited May 5, 2015 by Gary from OPA 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Opry99er #9 Posted May 5, 2015 I know I have some from the 80s, but the only one I can find right now is of my reintroduction to the TI, circa 2009. My son (just born) and myself. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Omega-TI #10 Posted May 5, 2015 Hey, how do we know you're actually on a TI? What program is that (looks 80 column, unlike TI)… can't see the system either. Printer waaaaay off to the right and discs in the center. Nobody I knew BITD that had a TI, had a disk drive or a printer to go with it! ***Also spy what looks like an iPod in the upper right hand corner of the vintage RTA computer desk. What kind of Tom Foolery is this? Okay, here is another view taken a year later... That thing that looks like an iPod was actually a digital thermometer. At the time this photo was taken, I only had two DSDD drives for the CorComp controller card. The buttons on the front of the P-Box were for the 64K printer buffer. In the original photo you can probably also see some TI cartridges on top of the hutch. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+save2600 #11 Posted May 5, 2015 Awesome. Love pictures like this. Have a few myself, but unfortunately, not of my TI system BITD. Hell, only managed to photograph but a few out of the multitude of game/computer/audio systems I've owned throughout the years. Love the multi-line phone, coffee cup on the expansion bridge and the world band radio. Still have one of those to this day. Dial on the flip top, that lets you know what (universal) time it is. Very, very, very slick little workstation you have there! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ti99iuc #12 Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) this is the only one i have of me and my TI99 in the gold days Edited May 5, 2015 by ti99iuc 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Ksarul #13 Posted May 5, 2015 There are almost no pictures of me at all from about the end of 1976 to 1996 or so. . .with most of those from the Wiesbaden TI Treff in 1990. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shift838 #14 Posted May 6, 2015 those are going to be some good memories. After I finish this new adventure I am working on I plan on enlisting my 8 year old son for ideas of another adventure game and what to put in there. It should be interesting.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flottmann1 #15 Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) There are almost no pictures of me at all from about the end of 1976 to 1996 or so. . .with most of those from the Wiesbaden TI Treff in 1990 Hi Jim here are some Pictures of Wiesbaden 1990 http://www.errorfree.de/Menu05.html Edited May 6, 2015 by Flottmann1 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Ksarul #16 Posted May 7, 2015 Excellent--there is even a picture of Sven Dyroff and his fully-assembled Proton in that set, Hamster-cage and all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flottmann1 #17 Posted May 7, 2015 (edited) here a great Picture from the TI-99/PROTON in german also spotted "Rabbit cage" to enlarge click the Picture Edited May 7, 2015 by Flottmann1 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vorticon #18 Posted May 7, 2015 What is that monstrosity??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Omega-TI #19 Posted May 7, 2015 here a great Picture from the TI-99/PROTON Dang, that took more than a few hours of someones life to build! I'm impressed. That thing IS a work of art, on multiple levels no less. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Opry99er #20 Posted May 7, 2015 What is that monstrosity??? Looks like death... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Ksarul #21 Posted May 8, 2015 That was a standard TI-99/4A when it started life. A lightning strike killed it. Sven rebuilt it using a mix of the surviving parts and a lot of TTL logic to rebuild it into the most unique TI clone out there. . .talk about a console mod! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+save2600 #22 Posted May 8, 2015 ...and a ton of dedication! Me? I'd have found another system for $10-$20 and been done with it. Be cool if he'd crammed all that into a custom made wooden case. Or an old Apple ][ or something... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Keatah #23 Posted May 8, 2015 Hey, how do we know you're actually on a TI? What program is that (looks 80 column, unlike TI)… can't see the system either. The system is visible. For a fee (which you likely can't afford) I'll run it through the forensics lab and answer other questions. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+save2600 #24 Posted May 9, 2015 The system is visible. For a fee (which you likely can't afford) I'll run it through the forensics lab and answer other questions. gallery_35324_1027_121052.png Next you're gonna tell me the duo-tone background of that fancy program is an artifact of photographing a CRT, refresh rate or something. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Keatah #25 Posted May 9, 2015 If you want me to I could. But we should all know better. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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