Mainbyte's Guest Book



Name:
Jeff Wilcox
Location:
Everett Washington
Date:
2/14/2014
Comments:
I am so glad to have stumbled onto your excellent TI-99/4a site!
As a seven year old, this was the first computer I was exposed to and credit it with starting me down the road of computer science that I am still on 28 years later. Thank you for putting this site together for us to enjoy!


Name:
Christos Kotampitsis
Location:
Piraeus, Greece
Date:
1/2/2014
Comments:
An excellent site, with many interesting informations! After 30 years, i got my own TI 99/4A! Many thanks for your good work!!!


Name:
Peter Errity
Location:
Dublin, Ireland
Date:
121/10/2013
Comments:
WOW - Great site!

The TI99/4a was probably the most expensive home computer in Ireland when my brother and I splashed out on one. We didn't have much money but wanted something that we could expand. Unfortunately TI pulled out of Ireland not too long after and peripherals were in very short supply. Many is the night I stayed up transcribing pages of basic code from BYTE magazine (like the Frogger game)... and eventually learned enough to write a game or two of my own. It was a Rolls Royce compared to the other cheap family saloons around at the time. I still have one (in the attic) our original regrettably got tossed at some point along the way.

Thanks for all the information you have provided - I might just get around to one of those projects.


Name:
Rich Gilbertson
Location:
Vancouver, Washington, USA
Date:
11/29/2013
Comments:
Just looking at TI99/4A sites.


Name:
Andy (aka Tornadoboy)
Location:
Massachusetts
Date:
11/12/2013
Comments:
Awesome stuff, thanks for posting it!


Name:
Kevan Coleman
Location:
Winlock, Washington - USA
Date:
6/9/2013
Comments:
VERY nice webpage you have here! My first run with the TI was 1983-1990. My second run started in 2013! Who would have known that this "Old Orphan" would STILL be supported and have such a large following after 30+ years! I'll see you at Yahoo Tech group for the TI!


Name:
Rainer
Location:
near Cologne/Germany
Date:
9/9/2012
Comments:
Hello ! Very nice website for the TI-99/4A. I also got one in 1983. Whenever the handle Rudi994 in a web-forum or so, that's me, may be. Good luck !


Name:
Jake
Location:
Waco, Tx
Date:
8/18/2012
Comments:
Found your site while searching for info on the ti-99 I just bought from goodwill.


Name:
fabrizio
Location:
Italy
Date:
7/10/2011
Comments:

Name:
Riccardo Berti
Location:
Perth, Western Australia
Date:
6/22/2011
Comments:
Compliments on your website and a hello to all the avid Ti 99/4A afficionados around the world.

The Ti 99/4A was an outstanding PC at the time of it's release; it was compact, supported various peripheral devices, relatively good quality games and programs and enabled users to create and run their programs in Basic. I remember joining the Perth Ti 99/4A club in Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley Perth Western Australia back I think in 1983 when I was around 12 y.old. People would but and sell hardware etc and I remember buying high quality Audio Tapes to store the games we had created and then selling these at the club meets. It was great being able to intuitevely program, build characters using hexadecimal programming in Basic; unfortunately I did not continue this hobby and would have liked to have kept up with creating games/ programs using other Operating systems and languages.

Hoping to one day see a working Ti 99/4A.

Best wishes
Riccardo

Name:
Juergen Priess
Location:
Gilching, Germany
Date:
4/16/2011
Comments:
I got to your TI99 site by a wikipedia-link. The TI99/4A was my first Computer. It is still in my private "Showroom". Now i am 62 years old and still have a TI99 emulator installt on my notebook.

Name:
Fred Cugley
Location:
Adelaide South Australia
Date:
2/8/2011
Comments:
Just found this site by accident.
Have many great memories from 1981 to mid nineties of the TI994a, as coordinator of ATICC user group.
Still use the TI Emulators on my PC.

Name:
Andres Schlesinger
Location:
Colombia - South America
Date:
8/23/2010
Comments:
Think you very much!!

I grew up with a Ti99-4A, I learned programming with it, now 30 year later I am working as a programmer and Ti99-4/a gave me the first lesson.

Thanks again.

Name:
Benjamin Giguere
Location:
Glendale, AZ
Date:
5/8/2010
Comments:
I took a computer class in October 1983 called Computer 2000. This was sponsored by my school using the TI99/4A.

I got my TI99/4A Christmas 1983 with a color Toshiba TV/Monitor, program recorder and remotes. My parents saw how much I enjoyed it they bought me the newer expansion box with 32k memory, disk drive, RS232 cards for Christmas 1984.

Name:
Christopher Rose
Location:
Lakewood WA.
Date:
3/24/2010
Comments:
Thank you for this awesome resource. Hopefully I can use some of this for some of my TI related projects.

Name:
Christian Raap
Location:
Cologne, Germany
Date:
11/28/2009
Comments:
Great Site, indeed ! I'm ti-user since 1982, beginning with TI-Basic, Extended Basic, Forth and Turbo-Pascal. I still have my complete equipment with console, peribox, printer and 1200k-Modem. I like to remember my ti 59 and ti 99/4a and use it still sometimes.

Name:
Rich Gilbertson
Location:
Vancouver Washington
Date:
11/17/2009
Comments:
Been looking for how to get out the new RXB updates onto the web.

Name:
Edward Lee
Location:
Chicago
Date:
10/22/2009
Comments:
I wrote a program called SPRTED1, a sprite editor for the TI-99/4A in TI Extended BASIC and assembly. I used to hang out on the TI North and TI West BBS and Alan Izzo's BBS in Westchester. I lost touch with the TI community after I went to college in 1988.

Name:
Keith Harvey
Location:
Barre, Vermont
Date:
8/21/2009
Comments:
I used to own three TI 99/4A Consoles back in the early 1980's. Two 1981 model consoles and a 1983 V2.2 GROM console.

Name:
Stephen Wood
Location:
Waterdown, Ontario, Canada
Date:
7/3/2009
Comments:
I bought a TI99/4A as soon as they came out. I started a software game company that same year (Graphic Software) and we designed and sold 12 different games on cassett. Those where the days!!
Steve

Name:
Bob Quintal
Location:
Clifton Park, New York
Date:
6/17/2009
Comments:
Love the site. Nice to see so much interest in the TI99/4A even after all these years. I bought my original back in 1982, unfortunately I sold it in a garage sale..Doh!!! Am buying another from Ebay as I write this. I look forward to getting back to the good ol days of computing.

Name:
J. Fourie
Location:
Madison, WI, USA
Date:
5/22/2009
Comments:
WOW!! Great site. I recently rediscovered my TI - I'm a software engineer and the TI is where I got my start back in 1984. Keep up the good work. Thanks!!!!!

Name:
Kent Sheets
Location:
North Fort Myers, FL
Date:
5/14/2009
Comments:
After 20 years, I'm going to get rid of all my TI stuff. Now looking for sources who can tell me what is worth and/or who would be interested. TI99/4 TI99/4A. P-Box, Speech Boxes, lots of cartridges. I was a member of OH-MI-TI in Toledo, Ohio before we moved to Florida in 1988. I can still hear in my head from time to time, "Nice Shot Pilot!" ;o)

SheetsKent@aol.com 5/14/2009

Name:
James M. Postle, Sr.
Location:
San Bernardino, California
Date:
3/11/2009
Comments:
Back for a visit...

Name:
Mark Mitchell
Location:
Oklahoma City, OK
Date:
2/17/2009
Comments:
Kept my stuff from 1983. Much of it including a full PEB bought in desperation when TI announced withdrawal from market. Believe I'll set it up again now that I have more time to fiddle. Thanks for your good work.

Name:
Bror Nilsson Sweden
Location:
Date:
2/6/2009
Comments:
I am so happy that you have done this perfect site about TI99/4A. I have a link to it so I hope it never will die. Have 3 complett sets with PEB änd all.

Name:
Dan Okoneski
Location:
Metro area, MN
Date:
10/27/2008
Comments:
I got my 99/4A just before finishing up my active duty in the Navy. This was in San Diego early in 1983. I believe I payed $150 and TI was offering a $50 rebate!! Pretty dang cheap for the time! Taught myself basic on that computer and had a lot of fun with it. Great to see this site!
danO

Name:
Jonathan Hoyle
Location:
Rochester, NY
Date:
10/20/2008
Comments:
Definitely enjoy the site. Makes me ache for my ol' TI-99/4A on my fingertips again.

Name:
Jo Stu
Location:
Germany
Date:
9/2/2008
Comments:
nice homepage. i began computing in 1982 with a ti99, in this time a very good pc

Name:
Ed Kulb
Location:
NJ
Date:
8/17/2008
Comments:
Adding insulation to the attic and down came boxes of TI stuff. Decided to do a little restoration project and was sure happy to find your site.

Name:
James Barnes
Location:
Huffman Texas
Date:
8/16/2008
Comments:
Great site. Been a long time since we ran a buletin board with a 99/4A.

Name:
Rick Glisson
Location:
Memphis
Date:
7/29/2008
Comments:
A great site indeed, thank you for all the hard work in putting it together.

Name:
wade casey
Location:
San Antonio
Date:
7/21/2008
Comments:
I hate to say it but my TI with accessaries is in my computer room closet. It was fun to view your website. I have a second basic ti 99/4a too. I remember those days fondly. thank you for letting me wax nostalgic.

Name:
mike lunsford gdike@generationdata.net
Location:
henderson / las vegas nevada
Date:
7/6/2008
Comments:
I was actually in the middle of writing an assy program (a word processor that used windows before windows came around) it would use paging memory, we figured out how to some 8k hitachi chips, also found in the horizon ram disks, and we could create large progams. then, well windows came out...

Name:
Eric
Location:
Downtown Chicago
Date:
5/8/2008
Comments:
I'm trying to teach my coworkers about how computers work as an introduction to programming. Your logic gate graphics are FANTASTIC!

ekachin@hotmail.com

Name:
Dave U
Location:
Madison, WI
Date:
4/11/2008
Comments:
Wow, what a trip down memory lane. I had a TI/994A back in 1982 also. It was the best Christmas present ever. I was 12 at the time and recall spending many hours when everyone was out side (so I could monopolize the TV) programming in extended basic. I had a tape drive, Tunnels, Parsec, and Supper Sketch.

I tell you, I was always amazed when people would talk about advances in computers that where just catching up to the TI. 16 bit processor in 1982! The 8 bit market dominated with the 6502 and the 8088 for so long. I finally gave it up for the Amiga.

I have noticed that us early computer guys are very nostalgic for the past. More so that any other group I have come across. Thanks for the trip.

-Dave

Name:
Andrea Goatin
Location:
Rome-Italy
Date:
2/11/2008
Comments:
TI-99 is Fantastic.
Thanks for you website.
Ciao

Name:
Leon
Location:
Athens, Greece
Date:
2/8/2008
Comments:
I admire your work, thank you for this great site. TI-99/4 was my first one too.

Name:
nic varnalis
Location:
pa
Date:
12/10/2007
Comments:
Great Site! This is the computer that got me into the IT business believe or not! I loved the TI99 and was at one time also the President of the Central Pa TI99 Users Group.

Name:
Giorgio Gemmi
Location:
San Martino in Rio - Reggio Emilia - Italy
Date:
11/10/2007
Comments:
I'm a ti99/4a owner's since 1983

Name:
alan bray
Location:
stockport united kingdom
Date:
10/10/2007
Comments:
really like your site and I will most likely be doing some of your mods (quieter peb)!

Name:
James Rice
Location:
Dallas, TX
Date:
6/20/2007
Comments:
I owned several TI99's in the 1980's but lost them during a divorce. I have gone on to collect, restore and hack other systems. This week I was given a complete 99/4A and PEB system on Freecycle and re-discovered why they were so fun to use and hack.

Thanks for preserving so much technical information!

Visit my collection at:

www.blackcube.org

Name:
Wayne Barry
Location:
Holiday, Florida
Date:
6/9/2007
Comments:
This is the best vintage computer site I have seen EVER!! I learned more about my TI here than anywhere else. Thanks and keep it up.

Name:
Karsten
Location:
Denmark
Date:
4/13/2007
Comments:
Absolutely great ! Very slick !
Keep up the good work. Here's a link to my TI site sometimes.99er.net
:-)

Name:
Mike Henry
Location:
Niskayuna, New York
Date:
3/16/2007
Comments:
The color and animated graphics really got my kids interested in computers. Great start - too bad TI screwed up their marketing plan.

Name:
Mike Jacobs
Location:
Canon City, CO 81212
Date:
12/20/2006
Comments:
Thanks for keeping the TI99/4A alive, and providing a source for information.

Name:
Philip Reagan
Location:
Houston, TX
Date:
12/17/2006
Comments:
Wonderful site! Beautiful job. I'm ready to unpack all my old TI stuff and start playing again. Thanks for all the information. Beautiful images and great references. Keep up the good work!

Name:
Joe
Location:
Louisville KY
Date:
11/13/2006
Comments:
I love the website. This is the best place to find info about the ti 99/4a... I just recently acquired a ti99/4a and I love it!

Name:
tom morrison
Location:
cheyenne WY
Date:
11/4/2006
Comments:
Ah the memories. I started on a UNIVAC 1219. Machine language, then I got into basic.

Name:
Paul Turner
Location:
Salisbury, North Carolina
Date:
11/3/2006
Comments:
Just wanted to thank you for the very informative webpage. Very nice trip down memory lane.

Name:
Andrea Contrucci
Location:
Scarperia (Florence) - Italy
Date:
8/23/2006
Comments:
Great site!

Just a week ago I decided to give a new life to my TI-99/4A (bought in 1982!), recovering all the parts dislocated somewhere all around my garage. It is quite hard to find someone in Italy that still have this delightful computer. Here is my email address: contrucci@email.it

Name:
Ioannis arkoulis
Location:
Naxos Greece
Date:
8/3/2006
Comments:
Nice Work friend , very intersting my best greeting, keep on....

Name:
Frank Elsesser
Location:
Roseville, CA
Date:
7/19/2006
Comments:
I was looking for some of the old programs that I wrote in 1983 out of my bedroom, and had published in COMPUTE! magazine and sold mail-order...I wonder if anyone still plays them??? "The Dungeon", "Get The Gold", or "Sound Maker" were a few I wrote. What great memories - that little 99/4 lead me to where I am today working for one of the world's best high-tech companies not too far from silicon valley! Drop me a line if any of you have seen my old programs - I'd love to hear from ya! Happy 99'ing! az_track@yahoo.com

Name:
Bones
Location:
Sydney, Australia
Date:
5/28/2006
Comments:
Great site.

Thanks for helping to keep the TI alive.

Name:
Mark A. Reed
Location:
Forest Hill, MD
Date:
5/23/2006
Comments:
Your web site is nicely done. Outstanding effort. Have a great day.

Name:
Glenn J. Schworak
Location:
Salem Oregon
Date:
4/27/2006
Comments:
Author of Karate Challange and Mission Destruct (reviewed on page 32 of January 1991 MICROpendium). Awesome site!

Name:
Richard Gilbertson
Location:
Vancouver Washington
Date:
3/27/2006
Comments:
Still waiting on my PGRAM and Horizon 4000 RAMDISK to be sent back to me. Does the SAMS work with the mods you have installed or is there a SAMS version I can install in the P-Box?

Name:
Ben Hillard
Location:
Louisville, Ky
Date:
3/16/2006
Comments:
Excellent site. Nice clean look and great graphics and lots of information.

Name:
Frank Johnson
Location:
276 Washington St #321
Date:
2/18/2006
Comments:
None Given

Name:
Michael Leighty
Location:
Auburn, WA
Date:
1/29/2006
Comments:
Thanks for the great resource. Your site has been invaluable to me for resurrecting my interest in the TI. Keep up the good work.

Name:
Mike Christianson
Location:
Manito, Illinois
Date:
1/23/2006
Comments:
Absolutely awesome web site. I can't believe how many names I recognize in your guest book.

Name:
Richard Gilbertson
Location:
Vancouver Washington
Date:
11/25/2005
Comments:
Just checking around as I got my old TI up and running again.

Name:
Berry Harmsen
Location:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date:
11/18/2005
Comments:
Ron, Your site is getting better and better. We (the dutch TI-UG) thank you for the fine information and the wonderful graphics. The CD that I got from you in Chicago is great. Thank you! Berry

Name:
Victor J. Steerup
Location:
St. Charles, IL
Date:
11/17/2005
Comments:
Picked up your latest CD at the Chicago 2005 International Faire. Have been using TI-99\4a since 1980 when I was selling them thru Tronics. Have 2 systems, 1 for home and 1 for taking to club meetings, CUG meetings, usually the first Saturday of most months. E-mail at chitiprez@sbcglobal.net

Name:
Paul Allen
Location:
Doncaster, England
Date:
10/23/2005
Comments:
I stumbled upon this site and it brought my youth flooding back. I still have my 99/4a that i got for Christmas in 1982 and i have dusted it down and it still works!!! playing parsec again 20 years later was a strange feeling and brought a lump to my throat :) Keep up the excellent work.

Name:
Sam
Location:
denver co
Date:
10/15/2005
Comments:
HI! i was wondering if u can have an internet or telenet connection with the TI99/4A.

Note from Ron: Yes, in a limited way. Search for the term "telnet" in the TI 99 message group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ti99-4a/

Name:
Dennis
Location:
Western New York
Date:
8/8/2005
Comments:
Wow. old brain cells coming back to life... I noticed that you do not have a genuine TI-99 printer attached to your system... (Actually it was a rebadged epson) Old times were good... it was my first computer...

Name:
frickel d frumm
Location:
in your TI99/4A!!! >=D
Date:
8/7/2005
Comments:
hey... i was running my TI99/4A and the cyan screen was now green! i dono if it is a secret or a glitch, or a cabel problem, but i'l leave it!

Name:
Edward Cheek
Location:
Kannapolis, NC, USA
Date:
6/24/2005
Comments:
Great site. The TI-99 was my first computer and I will always have a warm spot for it in my heart.

Name:
BWR_Rick
Location:
Piqua, OH
Date:
6/12/2005
Comments:
Past VP/President (Dayton) Cin-Day Users Group. Love the new PC enabled TI emulator. I still have EVERTHING from 1983 thru 1992. Newsletters, promotions, 3 full systems + 2 more 4As. Great site! Thanks for the hard work! >>> R i c k <<<

Name:
John Larson
Location:
Washington, DC http://micbro.cybercatholics.com
Date:
5/7/2005
Comments:
TI memories... Playing around with C99, with those "windows" libraries! I was so happy to see pop-up windows, but nothing ever came of them. Also, lots of sound experiments in C99. Rewriting a BASIC game (downhill skiing) in a FORTRAN compiler and slowing it down so it was playable. Endless hours of Spad XIII flying, 1st and 2nd versions. Lots of INFOCOM game hours clocked, especially Planetfall. Got Stationfall for the TI but never got very far with it. Eventually writing my own text adventures in Extended Basic. The Atari games.... especially Donkey Kong. The highly-competitive 2 player tennis game. FUN-L-WEB making disk access much easier. Designing screens for Spacestation Pheta. Most addictive game: Rabbit Trail. Putting a chip into the Super Extended Basic cartridge. And last but not least... the Axel-F theme, the most impressive use of the sound chip I ever heard.

Name:
Brian Fox
Location:
London Ontario, Canada
Date:
3/21/2005
Comments:
Taking a trip down memory lane. I am tempted to pull my old system out of storage. I am really intrigued with putting RAM chips on the 16 bit buss. After the first time I saw the console schematics of the TI-99 I was really P^^ssed off. My last fling with the computer was extensively renovating TI-forth. I may continue that project and send you the results. As I recall the last thing I did was using a dumb terminal on the RS232 port instead of the video monitor. No graphics but a least I had 80 columns! brian.fox@rogers.com

Name:
Bernie Mullaly
Location:
Feasterville,Pennsylvania USA
Date:
2/20/2005
Comments:
This is a Great web site. Alot of information that I need. bernie7787

Name:
Bror Nilsson bror@rixmail.se
Location:
Bjorboholm Sweden
Date:
2/14/2005
Comments:
http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-18731/BEN-SON/index.htm is my homepage. I have five units of TI99/4A end started my computing with TI99/4A in 1983 just before X-mas. I have two boys so we had a network and all equipment we needed. On my homepage there is a link to your site but I have to relink it with the new adresses. Tanks a lot for all work you have done. Regards Bror, Magnus and David.

Name:
Rob Tempelmans Plat
Location:
Warnsveld, The Netherlands
Date:
2/7/2005
Comments:
Great homepage. I enjoy to see that there is someone with the same name like I do. My homepage is: http://home.planet.nl/~tempe468 It is named Rooky's Homepage See you and greetings from Holland

Name:
ADRIAN AZCUAGA
Location:
VILLA CONSTITUCION SANTAFE ARGENTINA
Date:
2/1/2005
Comments:
ME PARECE BARBARO QUE ALGUIEN SE OCUPE DE LA MEJOOR MAQUINA QUE SE DESARROLO PARA EL HOGAR

Name:
Achim
Location:
Dortmund,Germany
Date:
1/7/2005
Comments:
Great site!

Name:
greg esperes
Location:
milwaukee wi
Date:
12/9/2004
Comments:
Very helpful site as information on the TI is getting hard to find. An excellent simulator for Windows is available at:http://www.99er.net/win994a.shtml

Name:
Chris Bobbitt
Location:
Vienna, VA
Date:
11/22/2004
Comments:
Nice site. Used to own Asgard Software all those years ago.. was a really good foundation for my career.

Name:
Walid Maalouli
Location:
Eagan, MN
Date:
11/14/2004
Comments:
Fantastic site!

Name:
Richard Bell
Location:
Staten Island, New York
Date:
11/13/2004
Comments:
Enjoyed the visit, nice work! :)

Name:
Michael Suter
Location:
Fort Myers, Florida
Date:
11/12/2004
Comments:
TI owner since 1980. Extended Basic Programmer. Lots of programs were so big I recieved "Memory Full" errors. Collector, Appreciator.

Name:
Ron Gerut
Location:
Skokie, Illinois (near Chicago)
Date:
11/6/2004
Comments:
None Given

Name:
Linda Hinson
Location:
Indiana
Date:
10/28/2004
Comments:
Great site!!!!

Name:
Carlos Randolph
Location:
Chicago, IL
Date:
10/11/2004
Comments:
Fantastic Site! I was searching through various links to add to my web links section and ran into this one. I'm going to give the 8k supercart a try and see how it goes..

Name:
Carmine M.
Location:
Lioni (Avellino) Italy
Date:
10/6/2004
Comments:
Sigh!!

Name:
Dave Wilson
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Date:
9/6/2004
Comments:
Wow! Great site, very informative and practical. Wish cables section would give details on various floppy disk drive cables (e.g. TI, Corcomp, etc.), but otherwise, great site. Thanks!

Name:
michael j nurney
Location:
Yourkshire , UK
Date:
8/23/2004
Comments:
Avid Ti99er ,i buy and sell equipment too. Looking for information on the Ti gramcard which i have, but dont know how to use! thanks. mjnurney@tiscali.co.uk

Name:
Steve E
Location:
Amarillo, TX
Date:
8/20/2004
Comments:
TI-User from way back.......have a non-functioning 99/4a and 2 working TI-99/8 computers with Armadillo interfaces. I love the TI. It has a special place in my heart.

Name:
John Cassidy
Location:
Rickmansworth UK
Date:
8/20/2004
Comments:
Terrific site - have just dusted down my TI after many years non use

Name:
Tom Wills
Location:
Tucson, AZ
Date:
7/19/2004
Comments:
Great looking sight. Best graphics I have seen on any TI site, bar none!!! BTW, check out the New TI99ers On-Line User Group at http://www.ti99olug.org and the TI99'ers Hall of Fame at http://www.ti99hof.org.

Name:
Matthew Hagerty
Location:
Marshall Michigan
Date:
6/26/2004
Comments:
WOW! What a great site! And it looks fantastic! Thank you for brining together all this TI information in one place, and in a way that is clear, usable, and looks good. I'm warming up my soldering iron right now. :-) My dad bought me a 99/4A in the spring of 1983 (for $150 at JC Penny) and I loved it! I was 13 at the time and had never touched a computer. I taught myself how to program by going through the BASIC manual that came with the unit. Come Christmas 1983 and there was a nice new ($450 from Sears) PEB under the tree!! That was probably the most exciting Christmas of my childhood. Along with the PEB came the editor/assembler and thus I passed the point of no return with programming. I loved assmebly, but was very confused by many of the concepts. The lights didn't start going on until I got Compute's wonderful book on TI assembly programming. The rest they say is history, so I won't ramble on any longer. Great Site! Matthew

Name:
Jeff Rock
Location:
Pittsburgh, PA
Date:
6/23/2004
Comments:
Great site! My son asked me about my first computer a few months back and I told him it was a TI-99/4A. He suggested that we look it up on the net and we found your site. We've been back quite a few times to check out specs, upgrades and porjects. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and helping out a father son team.

Name:
Pete Cypher
Location:
Madison Wisconsin
Date:
5/10/2004
Comments:
I enjoyed programing this computer and still use it from time to time. It was a computer ahead of its time.

Name:
James M. Postle, Sr
Location:
San Bernardino, California
Date:
4/21/2004
Comments:
Enjoy the visit. Great site. Keep up the great work. Postle

Name:
LeeAnn
Location:
Cincinnati Ohio
Date:
4/14/2004
Comments:
My 80 year old Mother has a TI. She plays Yahtzee on it everyday. This is her second one, she wore out the first one. I'm glad I finally found a site that can give me some information, we have never had any instruction books. Thanks!!!

Name:
Ted Schoblocher
Location:
North Port, FL
Date:
4/13/2004
Comments:
Very good site. Really addresses the TI intrest. Thank you. Ted S.

Name:
Kory ( email:shortbusalaboard@aol.com)
Location:
Ca.
Date:
3/26/2004
Comments:
Great site, keep up the good work. In 1984 I recieved a Ti994a as a gift, I found my passion in life programming games whenever I had time...(always)... In 1994 I enrolled in art school to fufill a passion I discovered 10 years before...(creating graphics for games).. In 2004 I landed a job with Sony Corps largest playstation developer. I now have come full circle and have re-opened my Ti vault and program games once again with it. Every time I hear the beep of the Ti it reminds me of my youth.. I have read many negative comments putting Texas Instruments down for the death of the Ti...The Ti has not died... I feel as though I owe Texas Instruments a bow for developing a computer a 12 year old could understand in a time when computers were user-unfriendly and parents did not understand them at all.. (In general)... The underdogs in the Ti tangent are those who dream about what the Ti could have been, and don't stop to think about how long it has survived...and don't realize it hasn't reached it's maximum potential yet. If it had reached the limit we would not have web rings and user groups talking about USB support, and Scsi hard drives. After these popular hardware choices are gone the Ti will adapt to the next layer of technology... The Ti/99/4a is much alive and ready for tomorrow....I have no doubt that I will continue to use mine for years... Kory Hagney March of 2004...

Name:
Ralph E. Rees
Location:
Phoenix, AZ
Date:
3/24/2004
Comments:
Absolutely outstanding site! My trusty TI and I have been together since 1983 and I just love that there is still so much interest for it. Definitely conTInuing!

Name:
Dave Connery
Location:
Elgin Il
Date:
3/20/2004
Comments:
Great resource for the TI/Geneve community. Thank you for the great graphics and Schematic's. See ya at the next Faire!!

Name:
Tom Holland
Location:
Holly Springs, North Carolina
Date:
3/20/2004
Comments:
Great site!

Name:
Nadav Ben-Ami
Location:
Baltimore, MD
Date:
2/26/2004
Comments:
Great site!! Very informative, and a must for those wanting to learn more about the secrets of this machine, and there maybe even many more secrets we still have yet to discover which is why this machine cannot die! Shame on TI and mismanagement, heck! If I was the CEO back then, I would have called a meeting of all engineers and marketing and fired those who were thinking of giving up on such a great technological advanced machine of all time.. EVERYONE FIGHTS, NO ONE QUITS, YA DON'T DO YOUR JOB, i WILL FIRE YOU MYSELF.. thats what they should have done to those who poorly marketed this machine.. It was too early for this machine to die, and now only 20 years later, TI REALLY REGRETS having to pull the plug..after what we have done with impressive hardware! TI LIVES!

Name:
Mark Wacholtz
Location:
http://994a.com/
Date:
2/15/2004
Comments:
Great informative Site! Wish I had time to work on the one I had planned. Which brings me to a question; Anyone interested in leasing, buying, or using the domain name "994a.com"? Visit for more info: http://994a.com/

Name:
Craig Stogran
Location:
Ledyard, CT
Date:
2/12/2004
Comments:
Fantastic site, Ron!! Wonderful graphics. I currently work in the IT business, and I still have my TI that I bought in '82. I learned most of what I know about computers from that machine. I still tinker with assembly language on it. Anybody else (besides me) have a QUEST Ramdisk?

Name:
Dirk Snoeckx
Location:
Lier, Belgium, Europe, Planet Earth
Date:
2/10/2004
Comments:
Cool site. Love your graphic art about the TI and the Geneve. If I find a high quality printshop they'll find a place on my wall :-) Former TI-99/4A and Geneve hard- and software wizzkid. Those where the days. No money and so many ideas.

Name:
Mark A. Reed
Location:
Forest Hill, MD
Date:
2/5/2004
Comments:
Very nice. A WOW! of a TI-99/4a web site. Thank you very much.

Name:
Bruce Maret
Location:
South Bend, IN
Date:
2/4/2004
Comments:
Thanks for helping to keep the TI ticking!

Name:
Ken Czerwinski
Location:
Huntley, Illinois
Date:
2/4/2004
Comments:
I was just looking at your page on the 2003 faire and continued browsing through your site. I was involved in the TI User's Group about 20 years ago. I arranged for the meeting rooms at Triton College back then. I'm glad to see that the group is still going.

Name:
Ernest Pergrem
Location:
Illinois
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Great work Ron!!

Name:
ian barker
Location:
stockton, uk
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
1st class site, Especially the project section. Deserves an award

Name:
Chris Schneider
Location:
Houston, Texas
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Great upgrades!

Name:
Scott Darling
Location:
Spokane, Wa
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
One of the best online sites info and the graphics make it the best one in the TI community.

Name:
Tursi
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Thanks for the resource! :)

Name:
Beery Miller
Location:
Houston, TX
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Great web site and love the IQ Test. Scored only 50%.......

Name:
Robert Boyd
Location:
Tecumseh, Ontario.
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Great graphics and an excellent resource.

Name:
Dan O'Quinn
Location:
South Carolina
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Great Site!

Name:
Bob kaspar
Location:
Lakewood,Ohio
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Keep up the good work, "We" appreciate it more than we can tell you. Thanx

Name:
Rod Lavington
Location:
Perth, Western Australia
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Great site with some lots of info!

Name:
Lew King
Location:
Industry, PA
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
A typical adventureous /4A user.

Name:
Dallas Phillips
Location:
LaGrange, KY
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Very good site. I'm glad to find it.

Name:
Sergio Vigano
Location:
Milan, Italy
Date:
2/3/2004
Comments:
Great site! TI99 forever!!!

Name:
Alex Mason
Location:
Kansas City, MO
Date:
2/2/2004
Comments:
Very nice Graphics

Name:
John Creviston Jr
Location:
TEXAS
Date:
2/1/2004
Comments:
Excellent site Very good information and great graphics. Different approach from any other 4A site. Looking forward to your next update.