Comment Nobody mentions the TI-99/4A (Score 1) 523
TI 99-4A. I'm not seeing it mentioned enough. It was the first commercially available 16 bit computer, even if it was hardware-hobbled with an 8-bit memory bus, and even more hobbled with a byte-code interpreter.. I think it was called grom. The keyboard SUCKED.. and I had just enough electronics where-witherall to put together a hard-wired keyboard I got from the abundant electronics surplus available at the time. I manually removed all the copper traces on the keyboard, and litterally hard wired the matrix to my and/or circuitry. My biggest motivation for all that keyboard work was to have a REAL backspace key (which was not available on the TI-99/4A keyboard without special double key-presses). I remember also hacking mine to make the extra 32K memory available on the 16 bit bus, which was a VERY nice speed-up. Eventually as this computer was dying out on the marked, I got the hard-drive card with a whopping 4MG seagate hard drive.... :) That was living high on the hog at the time... :) At the time I found a local BBS that was wonderfully active, with lotz of good info and programs to download. I sort-of miss those days when everything was a new discovery.
