Texas Instruments Portable Professional Computer

[Chris M]

 If W.Smith is still on this list, I'd appreciate it
if he contacted me. 

> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, John Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, is there some way to find out what the
value of my 
> Compaq is?
> 
> Sure, I'll tell you: $5.
> 
> :)
> 
> Sellam Ismail                                       
Vintage 
> Computer Festival

Nadeau's book gives a range of $20 - $75, but I
wouldn't give $20 for
the hardware alone.  Original documentation and
software, on the other
hand, is likely much harder to find and would be worth
some extra $$$s.

It's hard to quantify value if you have all the
extras, which are often
almost impossible to accumulate.  I think most
collectors know that
documentation is far more difficult to find than
machines.  I have an
IBM 5100, which is somewhat rare, but what is really
rare is the full
set of documentation I have, including the original
sales invoice and
factory build sheet.

For example, I have a Texas Instruments Portable
Professional Computer
(actually I have three of them) which in terms of
hardware, is not worth
much ($15 to $40 according to Nadeau).  But, I also
have virtually every
piece of software and documentation that ever went
with it (all in those
hideous orange TI boxes), as well as a big box full of
development
boards of every variety that I got from a retired TI
guy that worked on
the project in the early 80s.  I also have stacks of
preliminary
production documentation and schematics from the same
sorce.  Now that's
history -- and as they say in the Master Card
commercials --
"priceless."

By the way, one of my three TIPPCs has an upgraded
286-10 Soyo MB and is
IBM compatible (and therefore won't run the bulk of
the specialize TI
software).  Anyone ever see one of these before?

-W


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