TI did the same thing Quark and Adobe did later on – got dominance in their markets, killed off their competition, and then sat back and rested on their laurels thinking they were untouchable

EDIT: although in part, we should thank TI for one thing – if they hadn’t monopolized the calculator market, Commodore would’ve gone into calculators instead of computers

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A

It was a huge failure, but they tried.

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huge failure my ass. Come at me on munch man, Alpiner, or Tombstone City. Or coding vaguely racist things like Mr. Bojangles, one of the first codes in the early books.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Had one at home and used the hell out of it, don't get me wrong. Was my first computer. Played the Zork series on that thing. But, it had issues and wasn't a financial success.

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It had fewer issues than almost anything I've owned since. I bet it would still work if I got the right adaptors. Wasn't a huge financial success though. They seemed content with early coding and games, and didn't move into word processing etc.