Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (1981-1984) Apple streamlined competitor to Coleco’s Telstar

streamlined competitor to Coleco’s Telstar and Atari’s home Pong units

Royal removed several luxury features found on their more expensive models

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The "e" stood for enhanced

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (1981-1984) Apple streamlined competitor to Coleco’s TelstarTI 99 4a The TI 99 4A, released in June 1981, was Texas Instruments highly successful attempt to fix their earlier computer models. Most notably, they replaced an incredibly unpopular, cheap rubber keyboard with a high quality, typewriter style keyboard. Armed with a powerful 16 bit processor, it could display complex, colorful moving graphics and digital objects that easily outmatched its rivals. The computer became a household name thanks to a