+TheBF Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 I was complaining recently about floppy disks. TI-99/4A is a super computer compared to this old beast. (I had to occasionally boot a Data General Nova with paper tape in the 1980s. ) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 I really enjoyed that video! What a difference a few decades makes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolhess Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 That‘s the real retro! unbelievable that something still works today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Pretty cool. Now, of course, the task is to replace the tape reader with an SD device and provide an AVR interface to the switches to auto-load the bootstrap... 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 16 hours ago, TheBF said: I was complaining recently about floppy disks. TI-99/4A is a super computer compared to this old beast. (I had to occasionally boot a Data General Nova with paper tape in the 1980s. ) "I once complained I had no shoes, til I met a man who had no feet." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 This is almost exactly what I had to do, to get my FG99 going again ...after I bricked it! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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