Yesterday I took possession of three Texas Instruments 99/4A computers. Complete with a speech synthesizer and the giant expansion box!

I’ve had these as a retro collector before, but wasn’t really in the mood to play with them so let them all go. That was years ago and now I am vibing with this machine. The last time I really paid any attention to them was when I went to TI Fest West in 2017

so: what is the state of the art? What’s the upgrade to get? I remember there was some sort of tiny box that was the equivalent of the expansion bread box. Doesn’t look like Fujinet is for sale yet. Advice appreciated.

Cc @tschak @floppydays

@savetz @tschak cool! The CF7+ or mini-PEB is the expansion device you’re thinking of, but there are other options these days. I don’t have the big PEB, but deliberately have not gotten due to its size! There’s the F18A too for better video (there’s a new replacement for that now). I bought the F18A from you a few years ago after you won it at a TI show, if you recall. The TI is the one I coveted back in 1981 but was disappointed by the TI99/4 due to its chiclet keyboard and high price. So I ended up with Atari 800 and the rest is history!

@floppydays I wonder if Kay and Thom saw your reply as mentioning them.

Links in your posts continue to not be “live” and those two Masto handles aren’t live either.

@europlus@europlus.zone I don't know. Kay did favorite my post, so he saw it, but too am concerned about links and handles not being "live". What could I possibly be doing wrong????
@floppydays which client/s are you using? Or just the website? I’ll try and look at the statuses in the underlying database.
@floppydays hmm, actually, I need to see whether my client recognised your reply to me as a non-live “mention”, or if the website does as well. More digging!
@floppydays also confirming your test to @inverseatascii did not link to their account, so it just looked like a post by you with no live mentions.
@floppydays actually, your posts are indicating they’re posted from the Web — is that right?
@europlus @floppydays just replying here to see if there’s something about the oldbytes web site that mucks up live links https://blog.europlus.zone/
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@europlus @floppydays nope, they worked and show as real links, etc.
@europlus@europlus.zone @europlus ok, this post is from the Safari browser using the web version of Discord. Let's see if it makes a difference
@europlus@europlus.zone @europlus From what I can see, using Safari didn't make a difference