1981 · Computer or hardware
TI-99/4A (1981)
Texas Instruments' revision of the TI-99/4 with a full-travel keyboard and lower price. It was the company's best-known home computer until TI left the market in 1983.
Home computer built around the TMS9900 CPU and TMS9918A video chip, priced at less than half the 99/4.
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Facts
- Date
- 1981
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Home computer
- Maker or publisher
- Texas Instruments
- Platforms
- TI-99/4A
- CPU
- TMS9900
- CPU speed
- 3 MHz
- RAM installed
- 8 KB (expandable to 24 KB)
- Colors
- 16 fixed colors
- Sound
- TMS9919, 3 voices plus noise
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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