TI-99/4A Floppies

[Liam Proven]

On 02/10/2007, Peter C. Wallace <pcw at mesanet.com> wrote:

> > Tossing all of the other chips and CROMs and other stuff out, how
> > compatible was the TMS9900 with the TI 990 mini?  The same or
> > considerablly different?

No eye deer whatsoever, I'm afraid. A completely uneducated guess
would be "not very". I don't know much about non-home-micros of the
80s, but from my experience, in many or perhaps most cases, they
tended to be a lot less compatible with one another than "pro" kit
such as CP/M boxes or indeed generic business-oriented 8- and 16-bit
systems. When manufacturers cut 'em down /hard/ to keep them cheap, it
led to an interesting variety in designs, whereas business-oriented
kit wasn't so price-sensitive and thus stayed a lot more "standard".

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