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From: chuck@umiami.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: It's general question time! :-)
Message-ID: <6605.26aae689@umiami.miami.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 90 15:59:05 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Miami (IR)
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Hello everyone.

I've been reading this newsgroup for a while now.  What's funny, however, is
that my TI is up in New Jersey, at home with my folx, probably collecting
dust.  I haven't touched it in about 3 years, and I'm not aware of any
advancements that may have taken place.  Anyway, I have a general question:
just how much stuff is available for the good old TI 99/4A these days?  For
example, can you do 80 columns with it nowadays?  How about the memory stuff -
can you use more than 48K now?  I know the things I ask are hardware
limitations, but I would think that someone out there might have found a way
to do this sort of thing.  And how about cost of these kind of things?  I have
the 4A, the peripheral box with mem expansion, two drives, a printer
buffer/clock card, and a regular old TV for a monitor.  If there seems to be a
lot of good stuff out there, maybe I'll bug my folx to ship that thing down to
me so I can put it to use.  I always wanted to learn assembler on it, anyway.
:-) Gosh, I got interested in computers programming in BASIC on that thing.  
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   Chuck Urwiler    University of Miami Music Engineering   Voice & Keys  
chuck@umiami-Vax                | "Sometimes the one thing that you're 
chuck@umiamivm-Ibm              | looking for, is the last thing on your 
chuck@miavax.ir.miami.edu-Unix  |  mind"            
chuck@umiami.miami.edu-Internet |       -Robbie Nevil
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