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[William Maddox]

Jay West wrote:
> CRC wrote...
> 
>>> TI 9900 Boards:
>>>
>>> TM990/101MA CPU Board
>>> TM990/314 ? (has a DB25 and an edge connector - serial?)
> 
> 
> Then Bill wrote...
> 
>> I'm interested in the TI boards.
>> I'll also take the DEC board if nobody else wants it
> 
> 
> I didn't know there were other TI/990 collectors here :) Nifty!
> 
> Jay

I have the sad carcass of a possibly restorable 990/4 CPU,
sold as a mini, but based on the TMS9900 and not terribly
well-built. (The front panel switches are calculator buttions
using the same collapsing dome technology as the old TI-30
calculator I used to own, and have gone bad in the same way
the calculator keys did.)

I don't recognize these boards from the numbers, but I was
hoping they would either match this machine as spares, or
perhaps would serve as bait to bring a nicer 990 my way. ;)
Architecturally, the TI990/TMS9900 is interesting, but
the TI99/A home computer was an abominably bad design and
I can't bring myself to own one.  I mostly avoid micros,
but I do have a weakness for blinkenlights front panels
wherever they are found. :)

--Bill