My second computer was a TI 99\/4a that I bought new at a J. C. Penny for about $100 in the fall of 1983.<\/p>\n
I had put it in storage, but could not seem to find it until about three weeks ago.\u00a0 I was looking for a printer and found the TI instead.\u00a0 Quite excited, I\u00a0brought it home.\u00a0 It turns out, I did not store two important cords with it; the video cord to hook it up to a display and the audio cord to save or load programs and data with a cassette player.<\/p>\n
I quickly looked online for a source for these cables.\u00a0 I found a video cable at 8 bit Classics (https:\/\/www.8bitclassics.com\/) for a reasonable price and ordered it.\u00a0 When it came in right away, I tried it out and the TI seems to work fine.\u00a0 I wanted to make sure the TI worked, before I ordered the audio cable.<\/p>\n
Since that proved to be true, I looked on eBay and found one for right around $10 with shipping.\u00a0 Another $10 and a pack of c90 cassette tapes is on the way (also found on eBay).<\/p>\n
So now the TI will have to wait another week or so, for the tapes and cable to come in.<\/p>\n
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