Bill Cosby told us to go get a TI-99/4A back in the early '80s, and out we went to get one.
Just sayin'
This was my first computer.
I eventually got a 64K module for it from data20 (that was the name of the company that made them. Lord knows what happened to that outfit.) It did have 80 columns, tho.
This was followed by the Commodore-64, which had a lot of utility for a long while. Even spreadsheets (HES-Calc), graphing (HES-Plot), and the usual gamut of word processing programs. It was a gaming machine at the time for sure, but I really didn’t play many games on it. Mainly Zaxxon and Geopolitique 1990 (my favorite).
After selling that machine, I graduated to the PC in it’s many incarnations, but the early years were full of fun and wonder.
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