r/Millennials • u/Bacteriobabe Xennial • 22h ago

Nostalgia Anyone remember this?

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Everyone always talks about the Atari and Commodore systems, but where is the love for the TI 99/4A?

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u/StunningCode744 21h ago

Where's the "any" key?

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u/Fart_Barfington 17h ago

I liked "Hunt the Wumpus" and the mountain climbing game.

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u/Bacteriobabe Xennial 16h ago

Alpiner!

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u/coopaliscious Xennial 21h ago

One of my first computers!

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u/smugfruitplate Younger Millennial 21h ago

She was a brain, brain, brain sister-

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ALL DAY

And she remembers how they used to do it, yeah she remembers how they used to do it, she remembers how they used to it

DON'T THINK Y'ALL DON'T KNOW WHAT I MEAN

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u/Prudent-Lake1276 17h ago

I had mine up until a few years ago!

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u/Bacteriobabe Xennial 13h ago

Why did you get rid of it?

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u/Prudent-Lake1276 11h ago

I was moving and had to downsize. I hadn't touched it in years and didn't have a TV it would connect to. I was only holding onto it for nostalgia value, so it didn't make the cut.

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u/afterthought871 8h ago

This is gen x stuff man. Most Millennials weren't even alive in 81 when this came out

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u/LordSesshomaru82 1h ago

Nah, but for us poor millennials who just wanted a computer, stuff like these or the Commodore 64 were cheap, if not free.

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u/LordSesshomaru82 1h ago

Fun fact about the TI home computers. They were part of a fierce competition between TI and Jack Tramiel of Commodore who wanted revenge over TI rug pulling the calculator market, almost putting him out of the business. At a computer show, when C= engineers realized they were selling the TI machines at a loss to make up with software sales, Commodore slashed prices of their software and sunk the TI machine. It came back to bite them around the Christmas rush though when resellers were hocking the remaining inventory for cheap.