dasch Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 Quote Almost immediately, people at Texas Instruments were calling it Black Friday. Early in the afternoon of October 28, 1983, the rumors began to fly, and at the company’s Lubbock-based consumer products group, the rest of the day was chaotic. Middle managers called employees in, a few at a time, to tell them that yes, it was true and there was nothing that could be done, and then everyone in Lubbock was on the phone to friends at all the other TI facilities, and by four o’clock, when the official corporate announcement was released to the press, there wasn’t a soul at the company who hadn’t heard the bad news. Texas Instruments, the company that had put more computers into American homes than anyone else, was pulling out of the home computer business. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/death-of-texas-instruments-home-computer/ 8 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serafini Lapo Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 7 hours ago, dasch said: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/death-of-texas-instruments-home-computer/ Good! Thank's a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cjherr Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Thank you! Anybody have any good books to recommend on the history of Texas Instruments and the TI-99? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 1 hour ago, cjherr said: Thank you! Anybody have any good books to recommend on the history of Texas Instruments and the TI-99? https://archive.org/details/tibook_the-orphan-chronicles 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cjherr Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Thank you, sir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrodroid Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 On 10/28/2023 at 12:39 AM, dasch said: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/death-of-texas-instruments-home-computer/ What a great snapshot of the time! Thanks for posting it. It is stunning to me how quickly things unfolded in the early '80s. Didn't seem so fast when I was living it, but I was 12... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 I've had a printout of that story lying here for 40 years now! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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