Good times Ladies! I had a TI994A in about 1984 I think at 12 years of age. Added "sidecar" modem at some point just did know what to do with it, had a sound card to make playing games more fun and also had a cassette tape recorder for saving my very basic graphics programs. Really wish I had pursued computer science and/or programming further but didn't. My next computer was a clone type windows 98 machine I bought in 1999, the internet was getting popular and I just had to know what it was all about....

I love your show. People should stop taking themselves too seriously. That's why I like your show. It's cool, it's informative, and it's fun! 8 bit really feels like a hobby again; that makes fun.

10:00 When TI Extended Basic is selected, it will look on the disk for a program called "LOAD". If it does not find it, or a disk, it will then drop to Immediate Mode. LOAD can be a menu program to select from a group, or a Loader for another program. You will need a Disk Manager cartridge or program, to Initialize or format a disk, or to catalog one. Double Sided (but not Double Density) disks CAN be used in that Single-Sided drive, but you will only have the one side available for data.

I had one of those with the expansion box. The 9900 chip was actually cool. 16 bit with only 3 registeres cause any 16 word aligned area could be the registers. And you could do direct memory to memory operations. I had two, the chicklet keyboard one and the regular keyboard.

I just wanted to say a few things about topics in your TI99/4A Peripheral Expansion Box and Modern Alternatives... Yes. There is a "TIPI" - card for the Peripheral Box (P-Box, for short). You still need a RaspberryPI to run it, but, that is fairly easy and some have actually added it to the "inside" of the P-box. The "firehose" card/cable has now got an "alternative" to it being the "main" card of the P-Box "setup". It is called the "838-IO plus" -card (and connectors). There all kinds of cards for the P-Box --->>>(The IDE card - The 838-IO card - The TIPI PEB card - The PGRAM card - as well as a host of others). I also wanted to note that the TIPI "System" is also available as a "side car" peripheral in TWO TYPES---> The first is a "TIPI sidecar" that requires a 32K "sidecar" device as well, to function...The second is a TIPI/32K "sidecar" that also plugs into the "expansion port" and BOTH require an additional RaspberryPI device. Also...the "BackBit pro" device acts very similar to a "FinalGROM cart" that is available as well (and it's "sibling" card) as the FlashGROM. Really enjoyed your presentation, and, thank you for the info on the BackBit pro cart! :-) Have a Nice Day (The TI99/4a way) 🙂

The PEB box is a heavy beast! I always laugh seeing the "fire hose" cable to plug it in. You could totally use it as a belt to hold your pants up LOL!

That DB9 connection on the back is for a cassette drive. I know the TI-99/4a is not the best retro computer out there but it has a spot in my heart. brings back memories. The Brewing Academy has some stuff for the TI-99/4a.

you get a TI and just start collecting all the stuff for it and learn as you go. I started with just a console and rf modulator and a few game carts. And went on from there. Ended up with the loaded PEB, cassette, big monitor using the composite signal, dual disks 360k DSDD drives, hayes modem,speech synth etc.....good times. All this newer tech is really cool. For me, accessing the web and internet would be the most interesting these days. Thanks. My first computer and this was about 87.

I’m pretty sure I’d enjoy playing moon patrol!! That music was hoppin’ 😂

You certainly like to test the robustness of things 😊 Although I think this time the robustness of Taylor was tested too, lifting that monster expansion box - thought you were going to rupture yourself!

I wanted a TI99 back in the 80s cause it was the only computer I thought I could afford but settled on a used Atari 800. Which was awesome and smelled like a putrid litter box and ashtray rolled into one. Aww the smell...

You two are hilarious! Yeah, that thing it heavy, I dread when I have to move mine.

"...had its own power supply" ... Stares at you in Sega CD 32X

The old model that you have is the better choice as it had direct access to the fuse on the back. With the newer model (which btw, is labelled "Texas Instruments Expansion System", dropping the 99/4.) you have to get into the power supply part of the inards if the fuse blows. A friggin' pain. You can also cable connect two boxes if you run out of room for expansion cards. (in 2022 there are lots of options, so it can get tight). And picking two of them up to clean around them is going to PUMP. YOU. UP! So hey, free work outs! And the back port is the cassette port. For a printer port you"ll need RS232.

Growing up, my babysitter's husband had a TI99... many fun hours playing games!

Geez, never got the notification onto this. I'm planning on sending the RS-232 card (for whatever that's worth) from a third-party. The UCSD card doesn't come up much. It's usually as expensive as the PEB. It is as good as most UCSD systems (keeping in mind that UCSD Pascal is both a programming language and an OS. I think you need the card to use the Assembly Language system. Been a minute. You should be able to use any DD diskette - it will just format to less and will be limited to single-sided writing (not unlike the 1541 "flippies"). Your drive capacity may be limited to 90K. The rotational speed is slower and the sectors are spread further along each track (single density). SD diskettes were always Single Sided (SS). (SSSD) The R/W head was the same size for the SSSD through the DSDD diskettes. Problems arose with the DSHD diskettes (mostly when reading from diskettes).

A 99/4a was my first computer! I had two; the first one had the linear power supply board under the cartridge slot. It overheated (as they all did) and failed. I returned it and got another, which had the PWM supply board, and it was great. I miss it, and especially my Yacht-Z game! Subscribed!

Yay, the TI-99 PEB. I remember drooling over this in the catalog but could never afford it.

I was half expecting that cable to attack like a python.

You guys have all the toys!

the S&M House of TI99... brutal large but ya gonna luv it! haha. It does look cool though. I have to pick up our Corgi like that PEB.

TIPI is available in PEB and sidecar forms

I love the remote reboot!

New fan here.. awesome stuff!

Everything's bigger in Texas! It looks like a supercomputer with that thing! And hooray for the Evey Button!

3:33 I think that is called BPDC ("Bondage-Purposes-Data-Connector")

I always wanted one, but I have never seen the side view. It is a beast. I was better off with my standalone drives.

Manager: "I need you to design an expansion unit for our customers that don't have train fetishes." Engineer: "Fine, but I hate this job so I'm gonna make it the size of a mainframe, able to kill any small child it falls on, and it shall connect to the computer with a cable the size of Santa's belt." Manager: "Whatever - it looks like Commodore's running us out of the market by next year."

The lack of the old aircraft fan of the PEM will make things quieter.

I’ve got to get a TI-99/4A. It’s got that big industrial look, particularly with the PEB. Makes you think it’s going to be super powerful, but them seems like a cross between a Tandy and some European system. The PEB is magnificent 😂

Someone needs to 3D print some gothic flying buttresses for the interface.

I have to get one of those (the Peripheral Expansion Box) and the modern cards as well for my TI99/A.

"God's Own Surge Protector" needs to go on a shirt 🤣🤣

there is a P-Box version of the TIPI interface. It works great. Arcadeshopper has a few.

Crack that whip! I’d love to get my grubby hands on a PEB. I picked up a TI, TIPI, Sidecare Ram, Speech Synthesizer, bunch of TI cartridges, and more at VCF-MW. Looking forward to seeing more TI 99/4A shenanigans!

Adrian Black just did a show on this same peripheral ... Luckily we have doctors standing by for any physical injuries...lol

I have a nanoPEB, it's clunky and doesn't want to work right. There are three versions of the TIPI. A sidecar with external pi, a more all in one with a pi zero that will fit in a gutted synthesizer case, and the TIPI PEB which is a card that goes into the PEB

You May use Double Density floppies with the original Hardware, only High Density will not work.

If I had the skills I would (1) redesign the board to use a true 16-bit bus. (2) add a functioning backspace key (3) onboard speech synth.

"I love peripherals!" lol!

I hope Taylor will be okay after lifting that beast. She might want to see a chiropractor or something.

you need to buy the Dragon's Lair cartridge for TI99/4 it looks close to the arcade, all the VIDEO LASER DISK was encoded for the TMS9918!!!! and saved in ROM!.

My first computer, in beige.

Amy and Taylor, As far as the single density disks go. You might be able to find disk images for it and then use a Greaseweazle to create real media for the system. At least that is what I do when tinkering with the CoCo :D

Ma'am 😳That slap! 😅

You should check out my new 838-PEB that replaces this with a modern PC case and power supply. It is designed for use with the new 838-IO Plus card that replaces the bulky flex interface card.

16Bit Home Micro Computer that should have used the TMS99105A which has Floating Point functionality, if only they had given the unit a full 16bit data bus and a 24bit address bus things might have been better.

But that's TMS990 not 6502 I had a 994a back around 1981. I think we got rid of it because either I or it broke where you put the cartridges in. That would work better if you didn't break the cable before trying it... Just recently I got my ti99sim working again in Linux and was trying to do more challenging things with it. I did succeed in sharing the system joystick to the ti, starting the extended basic, and loading a few discs, which seem to load automatically if they are attached at the time you start extended basic. I had a friend with the expansion box and he showed me Arcturus so it was a sort of long time goal to make it work and I did. But that being the case I remembered it as better or something and it is really horrible.

Thank you youtube algorithm for bringing me chicks who did TRS-80s...

Amy is gorgeous

Have 2ea TI99/4As many games plus others and accessories. but most of all a Sony WEGA 36 to view them on, and all working great. How do I find someone that wants them?

How much did it cost to post that?

TiPi is a big deal. WiFi connectivity, chat rooms, download and play any game you want right from your TI.

backbit is NOT a disk drive, 06:47 it's a cartridge replacement.. only good for loading cartridge binaries from SD card.. and now drop tested ;)

Bathroom scale and weigh it? Really? C'mon.. every PEB wants to be called 'Beautiful Skinny PEB' ..just one time. 😪

More physical abuse of subpar old computers, this time the flagrant lack of care for a potentially brittle 40-year old ribbon cable! Such dedication.

Is Amy single?