+FarmerPotato Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 10 hours ago, JasonACT said: I've still got my mug from when I did the IEF training in 1994: Oh wow! What did you think of it? I had some GE training in 1992-94, with James Rumbaugh, and his group's Object Model Tool. That has been all I needed since. Here is a $7 copy of IEF, at US' ThriftBooks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 One Semi-Mug. TI's Lemmon Avenue plant in Dallas, TX was where silicon transistors were made in scale, in the 1950s and 60s. Ed Millis' group moved from a crappy shop down Lemmon, into a much better Lemmon Ave plant. That one was occupied for a long time. At first they finished and tested a few hundred transistors per day. Ed's ingenuity scaled this up through automated testing until TI could fulfill orders for hundreds of thousands. In the 1970s, he was assisted by a young engineer, Mike Bunyard. Ed's early stories are in "TI, the Transistor, and Me: My Dis-integrated journey through Texas Instruments". It's a fantastic book filled with inventions and practical jokes. (Reminds me of Richard Feynman!) It also brings to life Pat "Jack" Haggerty, Fred Bucy, and Lee Kitchens. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 Going from Mugs to collectible Books: Engineering the World: Stories from the first 75 years of Texas Instruments. _Caleb Pirtle III This one is easy to find in used book stores in the Dallas, TX area. Goes for under $10. I've stockpiled a few for future door prizes. On publication, it was gifted to TI employees. What we have here is a coffee-table book, breezy and not much depth, but it has great pictures from the TI Records archive at SMU. It doesn't claim to be a history book. It was commissioned by TI at the time of transferring the archives to SMU. https://www.hpb.com/management-philosophies-and-practices-of-texas-instruments-inc./R-387917072.html Pat "Jack" Haggerty, from 1945 President of TI (as Geophysical Services) collected his presentations in this 1964 book. It begins with this principle, adopted by those founders who sought to make this tiny company into a giant: "TI exists to Create, Make, and Market useful products and services to satisfy the needs of its customers throughout the world." The TI structure was built on putting many managers in charge of centers, each with some Create, Make, or Market functions. The two 1980s books I saw lately, "Managing a Product Customer Center (PCC)", and the FCC, were already outlined here in 1962. I recognize how the continuity of this mode of operation, the annual planning process, the Office of Strategy and Tactics described here, continues through the 1980s in all the records I've seen. To the end of his life, Haggerty wanted to publish a comprehensive history of management philosophy at Texas Instruments. I have heard (anecdotally), also read in Millis' book, that this was the impetus for the official archives, under Ann Westerlin. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 On 9/10/2024 at 5:46 PM, OLD CS1 said: I have seen Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 reproduction boxes, too. There is a market for original boxes, but who seriously thinks rotted, falling apart, water-damaged boxes are desirable?? A box is a box. Obviously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonACT Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 14 hours ago, FarmerPotato said: Oh wow! What did you think of it? I liked it, though a lot of people didn't. You code using the mouse, menus and pop-up dialogs. You basically can't have a syntax error in your code because of that. But you can't write code before adding the variables it uses. Then you check your code into the repository model, and generate it for the target (OS/390 or zOS COBOL, Unix C or Windows C, plus others). You can generate code locally from your checked out code, but you never really have enough checked out to do that with big models. TI sold IEF (then named Composer) to Sterling Software, who sold it to CA (I think that's about right) and it got renamed a few times. Advantage:GEN, Cool:GEN, CA:GEN. My work still uses it, but I changed teams and stopped using it in 2017, plus I don't really code at work anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 13 hours ago, JasonACT said: I liked it, though a lot of people didn't. You code using the mouse, menus and pop-up dialogs. You basically can't have a syntax error in your code because of that. But you can't write code before adding the variables it uses. Then you check your code into the repository model, and generate it for the target (OS/390 or zOS COBOL, Unix C or Windows C, plus others). You can generate code locally from your checked out code, but you never really have enough checked out to do that with big models. TI sold IEF (then named Composer) to Sterling Software, who sold it to CA (I think that's about right) and it got renamed a few times. Advantage:GEN, Cool:GEN, CA:GEN. My work still uses it, but I changed teams and stopped using it in 2017, plus I don't really code at work anymore. Ah, so there's much more to it than I supposed. I *did* see TI marketing Composer, at Object World, just before Composer was sold. I was confused when 'Code Composer' became the name for TI's Eclipse-based IDE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Well someone bought the Corcomp Ramdisk at $450 usd, it's gone now, but from another seller, they decided to put up a PEB and it's various cards including a PCODE one. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/166968855240 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted Sunday at 02:36 AM Share Posted Sunday at 02:36 AM (edited) If you got $99.99 burning a hole in your pants, then why not waste it on a plastic flip top case for your beloved solid state software command modules. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/365121461210 Edited Sunday at 02:36 AM by Gary from OPA 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted Sunday at 02:49 AM Share Posted Sunday at 02:49 AM 13 minutes ago, Gary from OPA said: If you got $99.99 burning a hole in your pants, then why not waste it on a plastic flip top case for your beloved solid state software command modules. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/365121461210 No charge for the potato chip crumbs. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted Sunday at 11:56 PM Share Posted Sunday at 11:56 PM Your chance for a Horizon RAM Disk, $400 with free shipping. https://ebay.com/itm/405231708678 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted Monday at 11:00 AM Share Posted Monday at 11:00 AM Or, another, if'n yer up for a fight. https://ebay.com/itm/405226338138 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted Monday at 11:05 AM Share Posted Monday at 11:05 AM 2 minutes ago, OLD CS1 said: Or, another, if'n yer up for a fight. https://ebay.com/itm/405226338138 Most likely will end up selling close to the $400 the buy it now one is at. If I can get my lot of 4 original horizon cards working, in might throw them up on eBay as well, as currently have two 4000 and two 3000 working so I don't really need the other 4 if I can get them working perfectly again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted Monday at 09:29 PM Share Posted Monday at 09:29 PM Okay, I just fekked up and bought a batch of ICs for a 99/22 kit. Not realizing I was not buying a completed build (duh!) It was a BIN of $50 plus tax. When it comes in, I will offer it to anyone here for my cost, free shipping. Hit me in PMs if you want it. Dibs are claimed https://www.ebay.com/itm/405233143468 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HOME AUTOMATION Posted Wednesday at 10:48 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 10:48 PM NIBs ...I just love NIBS... Spoiler ...Pretty CHEESY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewmacattack Posted Thursday at 12:18 AM Share Posted Thursday at 12:18 AM 1 hour ago, dhe said: Zach has a whole box full of them $$$$ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted 18 hours ago Share Posted 18 hours ago On 9/18/2024 at 8:18 PM, Andrewmacattack said: Zach has a whole box full of them $$$$ Just from those pictures, not rare by any stretch of the imagination--I think there are more copies of each of them in the two boxes than there are TI collectors. . .I suspect he'd probably still have half of them left even at $10 a pop. The market isn't large at all. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch1995 Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago (edited) 5 hours ago, Ksarul said: The market isn't large at all. Yup. Whenever I do an eBay "rush" to thin the collection, I start everything with a bid at $0.01 and free shipping. Let the market work. I've made more $ doing this than trying to set prices. Rarely something "good" goes for $20-$40, but most of the time I'm surprised (in a good way) at the prices realized. Edited 12 hours ago by Switch1995 edit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago What a poor looking TI99 console, looks like it's been in the '83 console price war with a VIC20 and lost more than half it's keys.... https://www.ebay.ca/itm/266998147838 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago 11 minutes ago, Gary from OPA said: What a poor looking TI99 console, looks like it's been in the '83 console price war with a VIC20 and lost more than half it's keys.... Is that like hockey mouth? Summer teeth? ("Sum 'er over there, sum 'er over there...") 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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