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From: a342@mindlink.UUCP (John McKechnie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: I want a Forth machine
Message-ID: <445@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 89 22:18:29 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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I would also suggest the TI-99/4A.  It has 2 versions of FIG Forth
available for it, and is much more powerful than the suggested machines.   It's
a 16 bit RISC microprocessor, and has a separate video processor.  TI Forth is
public domain, and source code is easily obtained, for those wanting to play
with it.
A complete /4A system can be had for as little as $300.00.  Several
manufacturers still make peripherals for it, including a hard/floppy disk
controller.  A faster more powerful 9900 based computer is the MYARC Geneve
(aka 9640), a 12 Mhz 9995, with 700+K of memory, and an 80 column screen.
Memory is expandable to 1.5 Meg, in the current version, with a 2 Meg version
in design (a small error in current large scale gate chip prevents the last
500K from being accessed)
All said, for a machine out of production for +5 years, the TI-99/4A is still
alive and well!