Scans from the 1983 Sears Fall and Winter catalog

[+acadiel]

Pretty cool!  Note the beige PEB has the text in the upper left corner.  Never had seen that before.

[arcadeshopper]

Before someone asks the only beige units released to retail were the consoles, joysticks, cassette recorder there's prototypes of the speech synthesizer and the other side cars but not released. If I remember correctly that beige expansion box and monitor were painted for the marketing materials.

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[Casey]

My dream beige system.....   

[+Ksarul]

That beige telephone coupler never made it release either, IIRC. Note that there seem to be a reasonable number of beige joysticks out there too, but they were all assembled with black cables and don't have serial numbers, so they are more properly prototypes too.

[oracle_jedi]

And a beige console with an actual power LED!  😍

[arcadeshopper]

Note the Pbox is the 99/4 version with the push button power switch

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[JB]

3 hours ago, oracle_jedi said:

And a beige console with an actual power LED!  😍

Well, a hole for one anyways...

[senior_falcon]

I seem to remember seeing a 99/2 advertised in a Sears catalog or flyer.

[Nightengale]

Nice, woo hoo - Tunnels of Doom $59.95, that's how much I paid for it, what a wonderful memory, and we are very lucky to be able to still play it 😃

[trapperkeeper]

Thanks for scanning these.  Very nice to see!

[kl99]

The console is labeled "TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FAMILY COMPUTER 99/4A".

Very nice!

[HOME AUTOMATION]

I believe I have seen that printed in a picture of a box, somewhere here on AA, as well.

[+Schmitzi]

 

I´ve tried to make a PDF from it

 

Sears Fall and Winter catalog 1983-Beige-PEB-OCR.pdf

[jhd]

 

I am very surprised to see the pCode expansion card being sold through Sears.

 

It is both a niche product and significantly expensive than the computer itself (not counting the associated memory expansion, disk drive, etc.). 

 

I wonder if any expansion cards were sold via this catalogue. 

[+OLD CS1]

15 minutes ago, jhd said:

 

I am very surprised to see the pCode expansion card being sold through Sears.

 

It is both a niche product and significantly expensive than the computer itself (not counting the associated memory expansion, disk drive, etc.). 

 

I wonder if any expansion cards were sold via this catalogue. 

I would love to see more get scanned; I remember quite a lot of TI stuff in Sears catalogues.