Atari I/O Members' TI Systems

[Justin]

This is the official topic thread for
Members' TI Systems

 

[RickR]

Here's mine.  I have a decent TI 99 4/A with a speech unit, a 32K RAM upgrade/sidecar, the FLASHROM cart, and also the Atari joystick converter board.  Pictures taken a while ago.  This baby is currently in storage in my attic.

 

[Justin]

Beautiful! Bill Cosby would be so proud.

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I currently have two TI systems setup in the den.  These photos were taken about 10 minutes before the timestamp on this posting.

System #1: Main Unit 

This system has been modified and expanded a little.  The console has an F18A and a PS/2 keyboard enhancement internally.  The P-Box holds a 1Meg SAMS card, TIPI with an RPi 3B+, Triple Tech Card, 80 Track Floppy Controller and a Lotharek HxC SD card storage device.  I mainly use this one for scheduling, BBSing, beta testing and anything that uses 80 columns.

System #2: Gaming Unit

This unit is unmodified, I use it mainly for a small amount of gaming.  This one has also become my "portable unit".  It has two 3D printed sidecars, the first is a TIPI/32K running a RPi ZERO W and the second in a speech synthesizer.

 

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[Airshack]

Nice Omega! 

[Airshack]

My system is reverting to the PEB again because I just ordered TipiPEB. Love those flashing lights and floppy drive capability.

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58 minutes ago, Airshack said:

My system is reverting to the PEB again because I just ordered TipiPEB. Love those flashing lights and floppy drive capability.

EXCELLENT!  The PEB TIPI is great!  Welcome aboard @Airshack!!!!!!

After you get it all hooked up, I'd love to see a photo!

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[Justin]

Welcome to the Forums @Airshack‼️ It's great to have you join us 

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On 3/5/2021 at 1:30 PM, Airshack said:

My system is reverting to the PEB again because I just ordered TipiPEB. Love those flashing lights and floppy drive capability.

@Airshack my friend, I have one major suggestion for you when it comes to the PEB TIPI unit, be sure to purchase an SD card extension cable!  Why?  Well, for starters you'll be able to use full sized SD cards if you want, but most importantly if you ever have to reformat and reload the SD card due to a glitch, it'll save you a lot of hassle taking the lid off, removing the card and getting tweezers out to remove the micro SD card.  It'll also be practical to run multiple configurations of multiple SD cards.

 

 

 

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[Airshack]

Where'd y'all get that?  Just ordered one off eBay. Great idea.

Edited March 6, 2021 by Airshack

[Airshack]

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I like it!  @Airshack, but could I offer one suggestion?  If you post your images at https://imgur.com/ and link them here, they will not be automatically reduced in visual quality.

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@Airshack Now that you have your P-Box TIPI installed, make a DIS/VAR 80 (text file) in the TIPI root directory with the following information and tell me what you think.

TIPIBEEPS
BAR ON
PROMPT=\c\p \g
PATH=TIPI.LOADERS.;TIPI.FC.;TIPI.APPS.
XMOD=XB28GEMG
XBADDR=32325
ECHO
ECHO

Omit the text in RED if you don't use GEM 2.8 as your Extended BASIC.

[DavidC]

First post, been lurking for a while. Seems like a nice and friendly forum! Anyway, here is my 32k "In the console" F18 equipped CF7+ Raspberry Pi 400 Mickey Mouse time keeping work and play station. It looks like they were meant to be together.  Lol!  A quick press of a button on the TV remote and I get full access to the Atari I/O forums and all other Googley stuff. It works for me! 

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@DavidC WELCOME ABOARD!  Nice to have another TI'er among the ranks!  Hope to see you here daily!  That F18A makes all the difference!

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@Airshack did you get the SD card extension installed yet?

[MaximumRD]

Well you know I had it in my mind ever since seeing this thread to get around to going through my boxes and finding all my Ti stuff but as often the case life and priorities and crap going on in my life meant I never got around to it HOWEVER I just happen to stumble on this video I made back in 2011 for a Ti Facebook group and since really nothing has changed regarding the content other than it's all just been sitting in storage this is still as good a video as any I could currently make so I might as well be lazy and just share it here to represent my Ti collection. 😏😉

 

 

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NEED MORE INPUT!

(Photos of TI systems)

[RickR]

I will take a new picture of mine as soon as I've done a little 3D printing. 

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I noticed we have a new member (@RobertLM78) on Atari.IO with a TI as his Avatar.  I'm looking forward to seeing his system as well as that new one from @RickR

[Atari Creep]

I'll get images of my collection when I can but here is a video of how I acquired my Ti99.

 

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@Atari Creep I liked the video, it was entertaining, fun and I loved the plug for Atari.io.  You know, from now on that is going to be a theme in all my videos, I'm going to figure out a new and creative method in all future videos to insert a plug for Atari.io.

[Atari Creep]

7 minutes ago, - Ω - said:

@Atari Creep I liked the video, it was entertaining, fun and I loved the plug for Atari.io.  You know, from now on that is going to be a theme in all my videos, I'm going to figure out a new and creative method in all future videos to insert a plug for Atari.io.

Right on, thanks. Atari IO has been a part of my channel for a long time. They are a big part of what my channel is about. 

[Atarigeezer]

Well, all my old TI friends are gone, iam still here. man time goes on.

[Atari 5200 Guy]

Here's mine. Nothing fancy. Unmodded unit and three games. I have a pair of Amiga-branded controllers I use with it. Really small controllers but comfortable to use.  Sadly, I've not seen any games in the wild for it.  Which is OK because when it comes to older computers I'm more of an Atari boy.  Not that I don't like it I just have more experience with Atari computers.