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From: sauer@dell.dell.com (Charlie Sauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: naive questions about 99/4A's
Message-ID: <4571@dell.dell.com>
Date: 4 Dec 89 19:42:20 GMT
Reply-To: sauer@dell.dell.com (Charlie Sauer)
Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Austin, Tx.
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I went over to my daughter's elementary school today to try to help them get
a printer working on a 99/4A.  I don't think I'd ever had any hands on 
experience with one before.  The teacher said something about them being big
and clunky and wondering why they still wanted to use them.  (They have about
12-16 of them with expansion cabinets.)  I never got the printer working.

I started to tell the teacher that they seemed totally obsolete to me and I 
would avoid any further expense related to them.  This lab has at least as
many IIGS's, so it seems to me that they're better off forgetting about the
99's, even if that means heavier use/contention with the II's.

My recollection is that TI stopped making the 99's about 5 years ago?
Am I missing something here?  Is there some reason why they should spend
money on these instead of the II's?
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