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From: bartle@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Aron Bartle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Mayarc Geneve
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Date: 6 Jul 89 16:23:49 GMT
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Disclaimer: Please Forgive My Ignorance

This being my first posting, I'm still trying to adjust... Bear With Me...

O.K. Here's my situation:
	A young (I was 10), impressionable person, becomes interested in
	computers. My first experience with one was at a community center
	class on a TI 99/4 (with the square little keyboard) encased in wood
	and running extended basic with a speech synthesizer and those little
	hundred-or-so word hardware add-ons that have since been outlawed.
	Naturally, I immediately fell in love and had to have one.

...Many years and peripherals later my system was the followiing:
	TI 99/4-A,extended basic,terminal emulator II,very many games(God I 
	     wasted so much money),peripheral expansion system,serial-paralell
	     card,modem,printer,memory expansion(64K I think),and two disk
	     drives.

...Since then I have almost completely lost all intrest in my junk and have
	spent my time hacking around on mainframes. (and you can tell I'm a
	pascal programmer by the way I compulsively indent)

Now (I don't follow TI-news at all) it seems that there is a NEW TI (mayarc)
	that might help rescue my lost (gulp!) investment. I would like to know
	more about this thing, such as: Does it exist? Does it sell? (no stores
	around here carry it) Will it use any, or all of my hardware? (the
	expansion-tank for example) And, just what exactly IS it? I gather it
	has hi-res color graphics and large amounts of RAM, but I know no
	specifics.

Any Info, either on comp.sys.ti or emailed to bartle@gondor.cs.psu.edu
	would be greatly appreciated.

"...And thank you for you're support." -- my uncle Ed.