Serafini Lapo Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 dear all I point out this seller who, in my opinion, has very interesting things on the Ti99! (especially a Navarone and a Mechatronic expansion cartridge) All items are up for auction with expiration more or less in 9 days.. I'll try to get myself some cassettes, the Mechatronic would be a dream, but it will raise the price a lot I think). By the way, is the seller perhaps present in our forum?😊 https://www.ebay.it/usr/lachacore 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 I'm looking for the complete set of the French magazine 99 Magazine (13 issues). Please PM me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 (edited) @Vorticon i have ever seen and have just 11 of them with almost each cassette tape, are you sure they should be 13 issues Instead? Edited January 17 by ti99iuc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 7 minutes ago, ti99iuc said: @Vorticon i have ever seen and have just 11 of them with almost each cassette tape, are you sure they should be 13 issues Indeed? You are correct. There are only 11 issues available. I have excellent PDF's of all of them, but would have loved to have the physical copies as well. Truly an excellent TI magazine which sadly did not get the recognition it deserves. The UCSD Pascal coverage in it is outstanding. I'm seriously considering having my local printer create bound copies of them if I can't find the originals. Maybe someday you'll be able to post wav images of the cassettes you have so I can reproduce them 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 (edited) Absolutely agree with you about the quality of these magazines. My idea, as Always, is to dump everything i have from cassette and floppies of course. At the Moment i have a lot of problems to do everything that i have in mind but i really Hope to find a bit of peace in this year so to restart with my main lovely hobby 🤗😊 Edited January 17 by ti99iuc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humeur Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 99 magazine crayon optique.dsk 99 magazine desassembleur.dsk 99 magazine routine graphiques.dsk 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 On 1/17/2024 at 3:47 PM, Serafini Lapo said: dear all I point out this seller who, in my opinion, has very interesting things on the Ti99! (especially a Navarone and a Mechatronic expansion cartridge) All items are up for auction with expiration more or less in 9 days.. I'll try to get myself some cassettes, the Mechatronic would be a dream, but it will raise the price a lot I think). By the way, is the seller perhaps present in our forum?😊 https://www.ebay.it/usr/lachacore Re Mechatronic. 3-4 years ago I sold these. There is a silver label Mechatronic (only Extended Basic) and a golden label Mechatronics II which included @Apesoft for graphics. See: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Also, Mechatronic had an upgrade program in Germany where their customers could send in the XB cartridge board and receive an XB-II board in return (with a new Gold label). I've seen a lot of cartridges with the later board but the Silver labels, so the labels are not definitive when determining which type you have. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Something a bit different: https://www.ebay.com/itm/185340445192 A really good book, at a reasonable price! 😃 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reciprocating Bill Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 (edited) I agree - I own a copy. A college level textbook on programming built around the 9900, including flowcharts and problem sets. I purchased my copy in ~1983. Below my address and phone number on the first page I pled,"Please! This was a $45 book!" Edited January 20 by Reciprocating Bill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 (edited) I found this being offered at a auction site, a Geneve PFM+ with 384 sram memory added on. I'm not paying the fee to become a member to see the pricing, but some of you may already be a member. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/myarc-geneve-9640-384k-pfm-192k-vdp-3594736819 Also a Geneve with Memex ofn the same site. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/myarc-geneve-9640-memex-card-ti-99-4a-1793647141 Probably the seller is someone who is on or has been on this forum, and there appears to be other stuff TI and Geneve related for auction. Edited January 22 by RickyDean added content Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 9 minutes ago, RickyDean said: I found this being offered at a auction site, a Geneve PFM+ with 384 sram memory added on. I'm not paying the fee to become a member to see the pricing, but some of you may already be a member. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/myarc-geneve-9640-384k-pfm-192k-vdp-3594736819 Also a Geneve with Memex ofn the same site. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/myarc-geneve-9640-memex-card-ti-99-4a-1793647141 Probably the seller is someone who is on or has been on this forum, and there appears to be other stuff TI and Geneve related for auction. They seem to be historical eBay listings with SOLD for info. Not current active ones. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Worthpoint scrapes old listings and posts the pricing data on them for subscribers. It may be a handy tool for folks trying to sell things to know historical pricing data, but the way they present stuff can be a bit misleading. They (or their derivatives) are often the only source of older auction data left online though, so YMMV. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Texas Instruments Deutschland report: https://www.ebay.com/itm/386160593809?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=9WjYv7WhR1m&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=p1_QbsfXTDC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serafini Lapo Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 14 hours ago, FarmerPotato said: Rapporto Texas Instruments Germania: https://www.ebay.com/itm/386160593809?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=9WjYv7WhR1m&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=p1_QbsfXTDC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY What is it about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Looks like a "short information" document about "integrated linear circuits": "Operational amplifiers, Comparators, Voltage regulators, Timers, Zero voltage switches". I don't know how the last one translates to English; according to Wikipedia it is a switch that stays off when the power fails, so that the device does not start running when the power returns. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serafini Lapo Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 A nice collection of cartridges with original Texas Instruments binder. Very attractive, shame about the price, perhaps a little high. Italian seller. https://www.ebay.it/itm/256390483086?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=A8r_oNqnT9C&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=dAl035cGRym&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 1 hour ago, Serafini Lapo said: A nice collection of cartridges with original Texas Instruments binder. Very attractive, shame about the price, perhaps a little high. Italian seller. I like to find some of those original cartridge holders. It is a shame about the price. As the cartridges themselves not really worth it, nothing super rare in there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 This an interesting chip sample of a TMX320 digital signal processor. The 320 was extremely profitable for Texas Instruments in the 80s and is still around today. TMX320 sample with window 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 This is crazy. I thought it would be a simple SCSI enclosure and I could replace the caddy unit with a drawer device. Nope. The whole unit is the electronics. https://ebay.com/itm/126268766583 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 18 minutes ago, OLD CS1 said: This is crazy. I thought it would be a simple SCSI enclosure and I could replace the caddy unit with a drawer device. Nope. The whole unit is the electronics. https://ebay.com/itm/126268766583 If you look at the pictures you could replace the drive part it is in a type of bay but then the controller is mixed on with the rest of the board not sure if you could figured out the were to wired it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serafini Lapo Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Hello everyone. Just out of curiosity, are there 3.5 inch drives for Ti99? Or are they used for a possible emulator on the computer? https://www.ebay.it/itm/404780697423?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=vttamoqaqke&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=dAl035cGRym&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=WHATS_APP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 You can connect normal 3.5" drives to any controller, but you must be aware that the drives are typically 80 tracks, and most controllers will only fill them to half of their capacity (unless you have an 80 track mod). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 4 hours ago, Serafini Lapo said: Hello everyone. Just out of curiosity, are there 3.5 inch drives for Ti99? Or are they used for a possible emulator on the computer? https://www.ebay.it/itm/404780697423?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=vttamoqaqke&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=dAl035cGRym&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=WHATS_APP Those disks are from @globeron here on AtariAge. He can probably tell you how they were formatted, as there are several possibilities. There were a whole lot of 40-track 3.5 drives floating about in the European TI community back around 1990, and then there are the two formatting possibilities that @mizapf has already mentioned when using 80-track drives on a TI. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 I actually used a 3.5" drive in my Geneve until I replaced it with a Gotek. In MDOS you can set the track count (it is simply a matter of the step limit); when you don't set it to 80 tracks, the OS will simply assume that track 39 is the last one. The drives are using the same Shugart bus; only the later drive have an additional line for turning on/off high density recording. But still, as long as this line is not active, it will work like a normal double density drive. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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