The Texas Instruments TI-99/4a is a quirky early personal computer

In the 1970s, Texas Instruments was huge. They absolutely owned the calculator market, manufactured a variety of chips and ICs and it seemed inevitable that they would enter the personal computer market, perhaps also coming to dominate it as well.

I’m certain I had a TI-30 like this as a hand-me-down from my Dad at some point.

TI introduced their first pe…