Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

["winston19842005@yahoo.com" <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

On Apr 7, 2:04 pm, Charlie Springer <R...@regnirps.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 03:53:58 -0700, heuser.mar...@freenet.de wrote
> (in article <1175943238.882463.85...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>):
>
> > Especially in Europe or more generally:
> > Practically everywhere except the USA ;-)
>
> I didn't own any commercial computer. I made a decision to buy an OSI
> Challenger system instead of a DEC PDP lab system. My thinking was that I
> could send data sets to the campus 11/70 for number crunching. After I added
> an AMD9511 to the 6502 in the Challenger, I could beat the 11/70 which was
> being used by dozens of people at a time. I was able to Apple's for research
> setups after that.  So, I used them at work, first doing instrumentation and
> later writing Forth implementations at Mountain View Press.
>
> My brother bought a TI 99/100 (?) which had a nice architecture but was sold
> as a TV gaming toy. It had upward growth in the chip set. I have a complete
> TI 32000 development chip set and docs and ROMs I will be trying to sell
> soon.

A TI-99/4 maybe? That was basically marketed as a "Home Computer" -
meaning games and home application software (you know - "database" =
"index cards", home finance, education software).
Yes, it was sold a little short, considering its expansion
capabilities...
But it was my choice (a 99/4A in 1982) b/c I couldn't afford an Apple
II. It cost me $300 for the 16k console. A year later and another $200
and I had a Peripheral Expansion system with 32k, disk drive and
Microsoft Multiplan.