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1. This is the month and year that Texas Instruments officially announced the TI-99/4 Home Computer to the world:
2. This is the month and year that Charles LaFara announced his intention to start the 99/4 Home Computer Users Group:
3. This is the month and year that Texas Instruments announced to the world that they were leaving the home computer market and ceasing TI-99/4A production:
4. This is the month and year that Texas Instruments actually ceased production of the TI-99/4A Home Computer:
5. This is the month and year that MG's Craig Miller delivered on his promise to produce the Gram Kracker:
6. This Glenview, IL education giant, which recently merged with Addison-Wesley publishing, produced more command module software for the TI-99/4A than any other firm except TI itself:
7. This California firm was founded by an engineer who worked for Rockwell International in Long Beach, California. It produced both hardware and software for the TI-99/4A and can be considered among the staunchest supporters of the TI Community. Name the firm and its founder:
8. This Santa Rosa, CA firm founded by Galen A. Read and Charles R. Burley in the mid-1980s would disappear into obscurity when the partners went their separate ways. But co-founder Read would gain notoriety in the TI Community as an accomplished assembly language programmer, creating applications such as Desktop Publisher for DaTaBioTics, and the Writerease Word Processor for CorComp:
9. This east coast firm, no longer supporting the TI-99/4A, was at one time a provider of major hardware items for the 99/4A owner, including expansion boxes, keyboards, and peripheral cards:
10. Carrying product number PHP 2700 and priced at $69.95, this was the last peripheral TI announced for the TI-99. (1Q/1983):
11. Carrying product number PHP 2300 and priced at $699.95, this was the most expensive peripheral TI ever announced for the TI-99:
12. At the time of its official announcement, the TI-99/4 was to be released with 21 options, including 16 software titles and 5 peripheral products. Name any 3 of the 5 peripherals:
13. Carrying product number WD-01 and priced at $49.40, this was the most popular third-party peripheral ever produced for the TI-99/4A until the arrival of the Horizon Ram Disk in 1986:
14. In 1982 this 17 ½" wide x 11" deep x 2 ½" high solid wood accessory for the TI-99 was offered by Millers Graphics for $19.95:
15. In 1982 this popular co-star of the Aaron Spelling produced TV series "I Spy" was picked to be the advertising personality for the TI-99/4A by then TI Marketing director William J. Turner. Arch rival Commodore Electronics countered with an equally popular TV personality who co-starred in among other shows, TJ Hooker. Please list the names of both people:
16. This well-known TI community member and California attorney was once the vice-president of Calvert Engineering, as well as president of a large 99/4A retail and distribution company:
17. This former TI employee left the corporation in 1983 to form his own TI-99/4A video game cartridge firm, Funware, in Richardson, TX. He was so successful that his company was soon bought out by Creative Software, a leading software manufacturer headquartered in California's Silicon Valley. Name the person:
18. This author of GEOS for the Commodore 64, the Mac-like graphical user interface released in 1986, and founder of what is now GeoWorks, a company which produces an operating system for small electronic devices such as PDAs and cellular telephones, co-founded Imagic in 1981, along with former Atari VP of marketing William Grubb. Imagic is the company which gave us such popular games as Super Demon Attack, Fathom, Moonsweeper and Microsurgeon:
19. This former Genie Roundtable sysop, who now makes his living writing science fiction and fantasy novels, was also a talented programmer who gave the TI Community such game hits as Space Rescue in 1980, PS Pesteroids in 1981, Wallaby, StarProbe 99, and Spy's Demise in 1982, and Gravity Master in 1983:
20. This magazine, edited by Andrew Bromberg out of Armonk, NY, and formerly known as TI Source and Logo News, premiered in the summer of 1983. It is one of the few commercial sources in existence where the E.T. and His Adventures…titles by Looking Glass Software are described in print:
21. Which letter of the alphabet begins the name of more cartridge titles for the TI-99/4A than any other letter, and what is the word used most often in a title within this list of cartridges:
22. Carrying product number PHM 3045 and priced at
$149.95, this is the most expensive solid state command module software
ever announced for the 99/4A: