Wow what a haul. You need to open the Mini Memory Module cartridge NOW!! It has 4k battery backed RAM, with a coin cell soldered to the board. It it hasnt leaked already you need to save it ASAP. Looks like a really cool little module - little RAM disk with POKE and PEEK extensions for BASIC, a debugger and some extensions for assembler programming. That assembly stuff is so cool - would have given my left leg for some of that back in the day lol. Mum used to use multiplan back in the day at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Though on IBM comapt.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip. After reading this, I did open the cart and the battery looked a little bulged but it had not leaked. It's kind of funny because I think a lot of the parts in that are the same/similar to the Tandy 1000 expansion cards I'm building. I've said a bunch of times that I wish someone would have encouraged me to code with that stuff back when I first started getting into computers. I can't imagine where my life would be.
@davidward9935
2 жыл бұрын
I loved my TI-99/4a with expansion box with additional RAM and the speech synthesizer. I wrote a spelling word practice program fir my daughters where the computer spoke the words and they typed the word in. When they spelled it correctly, balloons would go up the screen. I had to modify the program with the phonetics to add the new spelling list each week. It was a lot of fun. I had it for a long time. I had plans to use the TI-99/4a or a Timex-Sinclair 1000 do home control. This is a wonderful walk dow memory lane.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for sharing. That is so cool. It's amazing how capable these things were. As a kid I always looked at it like a video game system, but people really did some amazing things. I'm looking forward to going through all those magazines to see how people used them in their own time.
@arthurhazboun2992
Жыл бұрын
Brings back lots of fond, fun, and educational memories, I have all the original TI/99 4A stuff and the PEB, and casette recorder with lots of modules. I also started and ran the TEXSUBIN (TEXas Bulletin INstruments) BBS back in the day in my youth for many years. Thanks for the video.
@AnotherMaker
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!. I have such fond memories of this computer.
@spadedaman4958
2 жыл бұрын
You have my youth there. Got me right back to my young teens. I loved my ti 99
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
I have so many fond memories of those machines.
@mikelunsford7462
2 жыл бұрын
Love the Editor assembly stuff, and all the rest of it.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
I'd love to learn Assembly one day. I'm guessing this won't be the machine (more specifically the keyboard) that I do it on though :)
@mycosys
2 жыл бұрын
@@AnotherMaker Z80 ASM is fairly easy as a starting point - theres still a number of z80 trainers made, they were they standard at trade schools back in the day. Z-80 is, like the 8086, an extension of the 8080 instruction set so still keeps some relevance today as a start point.
@GnuReligion
2 жыл бұрын
Would have loved all this stuff when I was 12. The assembly cart was necessary ... the stock CPU did not have BASIC peek/poke/sys. Could not afford any of it. :(
@arraybytes
2 жыл бұрын
That is an amazing collection. I am surprised it is so complete. The only book I still have is the basic book.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah this guy generally really treasured this stuff. The stuff that was beat up was because it was used hard
@netcreature
2 жыл бұрын
Great find. I found a huge lot like this a few years ago. I own a collection of nearly one hundred systems and the TI-99/4A is one of the most comprehensive parts with the computer, PEB and eight bankers boxes full of other stuff.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
Nearly 100 systems? That's awesome! So cool. I'll bet that's a pretty fun collection.
@netcreature
2 жыл бұрын
@@AnotherMaker Thank you. I've been collecting on and off for thirty plus years. I very much enjoy it.
@andreroussel
Жыл бұрын
That is a nice haul. I love all the assembly language material included. Hope you make another video going more in depth on those items.
@AnotherMaker
Жыл бұрын
Yeah. It's funny. I've come up with several other of these machines since then. I'm going through and fixing them all. They don't seem to do very well sitting for a long time.
@IrnBruNYC
Жыл бұрын
This was my first computer. I learned to program BASIC on it when I was 6. I had a bunch of games and the speech synthesizer, but none of this other hardware. This haul is awesome.
@AnotherMaker
Жыл бұрын
I have such good memories of those computers. They were a big part of my early childhood.
@RetroJack
2 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see you do something with all this - subbed!
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the sub! It did take all 3 of these computers to make one working one but that gives me 2 to tinker with :)
@OldNavyAirdale
2 жыл бұрын
I remember having the TI-994/A as a young teenager. I never got anything more than the computer and a actual General Electric data tape recorder. OH I did also have the speech synthesizer. WE got the Apple //e not too long after getting the TI. Worlds first 16-BIT home computer also.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
I spent so many hours on that TI-99 as a kid. I wish I would have started coding, but I was a bit young back then. I remember my aunt spending hours typing in a BASIC program and then forgetting to save to tape. haha. Good times.
@karllaun2427
2 жыл бұрын
Interesting stuff. The TI was my first computer. Played Parsec and Tombstone City endlessly.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
I loved Parsec. I'm trying to remember Tombstone City. It's been a while. I might have to give that one a shot.
@JDoucette
5 ай бұрын
I was dying to be able to program assembly when I had my TI-99/4A. I would've ate up all of those books. I had to wait another 12 years before gaining the needed information and an assembler (TASM) to finally code in assembly (16-bit x86, and even 32-bit if you were willing to type the machine code directly).
@adamantyr
2 жыл бұрын
A great haul! The disk software in particular is of interest; a lot of 3rd party stuff is really rare.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I really do need to figure out the best way to archive this stuff. The good news is that it's been in temp/humidity controlled storage its whole life...but time is ticking
@AngryCalvin
Жыл бұрын
My first gaming console. LOL! Yeah everyone came to my house to play video games. Had the speech synthesizer. My uncle had the disk drive and Tunnels of Doom. With all the homebrew community we have today the disk drive would be essential. There's a lot of good stuff out there.
@AnotherMaker
Жыл бұрын
The speech thing was mind blowing to me as a kid. It was so futuristic. I don't think I've played tunnels of doom. I just found it. I need to fire it up!
@unchainedwiththecapt
Жыл бұрын
This was my first computer. Got it when I was 13. I remember drooling over that expansion box. Way out of my price range though.
@AnotherMaker
Жыл бұрын
Such fun stuff. Yeah. I had no idea that PEB existed at the time, but it's pretty amazing what people were doing with these things back in the day...and honestly what they're doing with them now.
@richardanderson5424
10 ай бұрын
I used to type in and edit lots of programs in TI BASIC but I could never get it to save on cassette tape very often. I used to love listing and modifying some games to by-pass or get some hints to help with some problems encountered inn text adventure games.
@JDoucette
5 ай бұрын
If you find "Alpha Base" in any of those games disks, let me know! That's a super rare find. Possibly local only to Eastern Canada (Nova Scotia). I recently realized it was likely a remake of Caverns of Mars. Written in TI BASIC.
@toscar98
2 жыл бұрын
Quite the haul. If you have questions I can help.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I'm just digging into it, but people have been crazy helpful so far.
@GadgetReboot
2 жыл бұрын
$500 + $300 to store under 100K per disk - I hope the software was proportionally sized or there'd be a lot of disk swapping!
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
Well a lot of people wrote in Assembly, so I'm guessing it would be. The people I know who write in Assembly for windows often say that the program icon is bigger than the rest of the program.
@butsukete1806
2 жыл бұрын
Nearly wore out that assembly language book when I was a teen.
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
I REALLY wish I would have had that foundation as a kid learning to code. Instead I waited until I was nearly 40.
@musicdad
Жыл бұрын
Please scan those manuals for archive. That last one looked interesting.
@AnotherMaker
Жыл бұрын
Yeah. I have an automatic double-sided scanner for things like that.
@maritoguionyo
2 жыл бұрын
Cool thing
@AnotherMaker
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@ccooper2654
2 жыл бұрын
Did you get Extended Basic? That is the most used Cart for the Ti
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