How the TI-99/4a computer sold 2.8 million yet failed

Play these games on your device!! Emulators can be found here (unaffiliated link):
https://www.99er.net/emul.shtml
(I like Win994a simulator and Classic99 on Windows)

In 1978, Texas Instruments missed an opportunity to define computing architecture. However, we still got the TI-99/4a from it.

Today we will checking out some vintage computing hardware - the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a home computer that was released in 1981. Today we'll be learning about it's history, how history could have been different, and also doing a teardown to see inside it, as well as playing several games.

Gameplay Includes: TI Invaders, Car Wars, Jawbreaker II, BurgerTime, Tombstone City, Blasto, Hunt the Wumpus, Munch Man, A-Maze-Ing, and Parsec

Interesting Reading:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_I...
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-histor...
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-histor...

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-990
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeL...
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/...
http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/mips.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruc...

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