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Timeline 99 -- 1989

JAN 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.
  • MICROpendium begins accepting subscription orders by credit card.
  • Harry Brashear, outspoken member of the Western New York 99ers User Group, MICROpendium columnist and frequent visitor to the 'Boards' supporting the TI Community, publishes the following in the January 1989 issue of his User Group newsletter the N.Y. 99er Interface:
    • "This month I will be doing The View From The Point first because it is the really big news I suppose. As you all know, my Home Publishing manual will be a substantial benefit to the group treasury as well as Bob Coffey and I. We have managed to sell quite afew of them and we were looking forward to polishing them off by the end of January. That goal is now in jeopardy because of one of the ‘great kahoonas in our community, J. Peter Hoddie.

      I hereby submit his review of my manual from the Boston Computer Society TI-99/4A Newsletter, and my rebuttal. Please forgive the small print. ‘Since I didn’t want to be further accused of incomplete reporting. I have copied directly for the first time in my three years of editing this newsletter. (J. Peter Hoddie article not included here).

      THE GODS HAVE SPOKEN! (or - My Excuses -)

      Before I commit the remaininq twenty-five or thirty percent of the manuals to the bottom of my bird cage, and cut my losses, I would like to at least defend myself against this review. Apparently, the thing that stiffed Peter the most was that his program FontWriter II got a bum rap or at least not enough coverage in my manual. For this I apologize. In my ignorance of the TI and the community, I apparently do not know which side of my bread my butter is on. FontWriter II is a very nice program, and for its time was quite innovative. As a matter of fact, in October of 1987 I did a review of it in MICROpendium and gave it a much deserved ‘A’ rating.

      There are some things that it does better than others, but I would hate to have to turn out a twenty page newsletter with it. Nuff said!

      Concerning my apparent bribery to get a free program by the name of Graphics Expander (also written by J. Pete) , to review for MICROpendium. I had seen this program demonstrated at my group meeting, played with it a little, and, yes, had determined that it was an ‘A” program. And yes, I did mention this in my note to Genial, which I thought of as more of a compliment than a bribe. As MicroPendium can attest to, if requested, I always return programs, UNCOPIED, after a review. I don’t feel too bad about trying to get them to mail me a copy gratis, because frankly, I can’t afford to buy all the programs I review. My object in reviewing for Micro is to make money to update my system.

      When I decided that Expander was too important to be left out of my manual however, I spent the money for it. (Please be kind enough to check your records Pete) Unfortunately, as with most Genial software it takes six weeks to arrive and it didn’t make the main publication. A review of its features will be found in the first manual supplement along with some of Genial’s fonts (which I purchased in Harrisburg), all of which are very good.

      Now in defense of the manual itself. Idid NOT write this manual to be a set of docs on how to run programs. I have made this quite clear in a couple of places in the book. If the pirates want to get docs, they will have to find them someplace else. My intention for the main manual was to tell the people what was available, where to get what they needed, and what the features of the products were. It was also intended to inspire people with all of the illustrations.

      I devoted a lot of space to fonts because our fonts are unique to the computer WORLD. Nobody has as many as we do, and besides, what is publishing, if it isn’t fonts.

      I had originally set out to tell everything there was to tell about TI graphics in one book... NO WAY! I could have easily extended the manual to 150 pages plus, which would have intde it too expensive for the average TIer, and, broken the bank account of our group Therefore we budgeted it to no more than eighty pages plus the mailing of two supplements of twenty pages each. We also considered the possibility of extending that with a by-monthly newsletter devoted to graphics. (That, of course, may now be impossible!) I felt that I had to wait for people’s questions before I could fill in the gaps. The first supplement, already completed, and to be mailed out in February, will prove that out.

      There ARE four pages of ads placed in the middle of the book, (so that they could be removed if the buyer wished. They are also unumbered pages, added to the seventy-four numbered ones, plus the title page and index - that makes our advertised eighty pages in my copy. These ads were promised to the companies that helped me Texaments, Great Lakes and Asgard. They helped by either giving, or selling to me at wholesale, all of their graphics packages.

      To these companies, I will be forever grateful, because without them, the manual would have been impossible. They have received free copies of the manual (obvioulsy a bribe) and have given their full approval of its contents.

      Since the TI SIG of the Boston Computer Society is the last word in Tldom, and J. Peter is the most respected software author and iudge in our community, I humbly bow to his opinion, and beg his forgiveness for having tread unknowingly upon his toes. I promise to seriously question the wisdom of those people that are sending second and third orders for their friends. I will also wonder whether the groups that are ‘ requesting second multiple orders have any idea what the hell they are doing. Most humbly and insignificant to He who dealuth the lightning...HTB"

  • Jerry Stern takes over for Lee Wilkerson as MICROpendium's Extended BASIC columnist.
  • George Steffen Memorial is setup up in a Simi Valley, California hospital. Two computers are donated by TexComp as part of the memorial.
  • Milo Tsukroff releases MX-DOS 3.0 for the TI-99/4A disk system. The application consists of a disk manager and auto-loader. (Nutmeg 99ers Newsletter Mar90,p.3)
  • Funnelweb v4.13 is released in the United States.
  • Asgard Software sends out postcards to members of the TI Community announcing a February 1989 release date for the Press word processor.
  • The first working 80-Column version of Funnelweb is released for the AVPC card by DIJIT. It is version 4.13.
  • Bud Mills releases the HRD 3000, a new board for the HORIZON RAMDISK that can support up to 800k on the Geneve or 512k on the TI-99/4A.
  • Bill Gaskill reports on Marc LeVine's article reviewing the DKM Basic Compiler in Gaskill's 4A/Talk monthly newsletter column. Nothing further is heard about the compiler afterwards?
  • APPLE -- Apple launches the MACintosh SE, it's most powerful version to date.

FEB 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • Both Asgard Software and Myarc Inc. announce that they will no longer give release dates on new products.
  • From Pekin, IL User Group Newsletter...kind of summarizes the issues that all user groups face.
    • "I am getting really tired of doing damn near everything to keep this user's group going. Especially concerning this newsletter. Some of us are on the national info networks and/or call bulletin boards on a regular basis. I don't see why you can't download a textfile or two for the newsletter. And I also don't see why ANYONE can't write a few words about a new program or peripheral they just got (or even had for a while).

      Nobody expects you to write like John Steinbeck (just look at any newsletter for proof of that). I am getting very burnt out being President, newsletter editor, host for our meetings, resident hardware and software answer man and everything else. I don't mind doing my part, but this is getting old. I do not mean to discount the contributions of those who have and do help (like Malcolm and Brian), but this is a user GROUP. Note the word GROUP. It means more than one. So let's start acting like a group and all contribute something besides excuses.

      By the way, George, I appreciate the great job you are doing as treasurer!" -- Mike Christianson

  • Mike Dodd quits as Geneve columnist at MICROpendium.
  • TexComp begins selling TI-99/4A t-shirts and sweatshirts.
  • Asgard Software announces the release of Typewriter 99 by Jim Reiss and Cassette Labeler.
  • Fest-West '89 takes place on February 18-19 at the Clarion Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Blvd. San Diego, California.
  • The Game of Wit, formerly marketed by TEXware Associates of Wellington, Illinois, is placed into the public domain.
  • Milton Bradley releases Honey Hunt, an MBX game, into the public domain.
  • Ray Kazmer releases Maze of Grog, a sequel of sorts to his 1987 Woodstock Christmas card that was a smash hit in the 4A community.
  • Art Green, author of Macro Assembler, releases TI-Writer v4.2.
  • The Bunyard Group, publishers of the Bunyard Hardware Manual for the 99/4A, moves from Lubbock, Texas to Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • Word leaks out to the TI Community that a TI-Artist v2.0 is in the works. (Western New York Interface Feb89, p.6)
  • Jim Peterson begins offering diskettes filled with public domain software. Over 200 SS/SD disks are initially available, organized by type of program.

MAR 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • Paul Charlton releases a developers kit for the Geneve 9640.
  • Advanced BASIC for the Geneve debuts.
  • Dr. Ron Albright, author of the ORPHAN CHRONICLES and ORPHAN SURVIVAL books, as well as being a partner in Heritage Software, and co-columnist with Jonathan Zittrain of the Computer Shopper's TI Forum, leaves the TI Community to pursue other interests.
  • Al Beard, spokesman for LGMA products, announces 99Fortran for the Geneve.
  • Asgard Software announces a challenge to design a new 99/4A compatible computer to pick up where the Myarc Geneve left off. Owner Chris Bobbitt is critical of Myarc's mismanagement of the Geneve and their lack of customer support for the product.
  • MICROdex for TI-Base is released by Texaments. The Bill Gaskill authored program is the first third-party commercial application to be developed for the TI-Base data manager.
  • Geometer's Apprentice debuts from McCann Software.
  • The Northcoast 99er User Group begins accepting non-attending members, following the lead of the Chicago TI-UG.
  • T.I.C.O.F.F. is held March 18 at the Roselle Park, New Jersey High School.
  • MICROpendium publishes the sources of several computerized indexes to their magazine.
  • Calendar Maker Utilities is released by Asgard Software.
  • Cryptogram Solver is released by Jeff Bunting.
  • Rodger Merritt releases Jiffy Card through Comprodine.
  • Noted programmer and GEnie Sysop John Johnson is selected as the first recipient of the "Hall of Fame" award given out by the TI Users Group of Orange County, CA. Johnson is best known for his Remind Me! personal productivity program and for the 'Menu' application designed to be run from the Horizon RAM Disk.
  • Bill Gaskill writes about Fest-West '89 in San Diego, CA in his March Four-A/Talk column published in a variety of User Group newsletters. "I spent a weekend in San Diego February 18-19 at the beautiful Clarion Hotel, meeting scads of neat people at the 1989 version of Fest-West. What a great time! If you have never been to any of the major TI faires  like the TICOFF in New Jersey, the Chicago Faire in Illinois or the  Fest-West which is always somewhere in the western states each year, you really should go to one. Aside from the fabulous products and seminars available, you will usually rub shoulders with most of the  movers and shakers in the TI community. Many of them were in attendance at Fest-West '89.  Regena, Barry Traver, Steve Mehr and Roger Merritt from Comprodine, Terrie Masters and Fred Moore from the LA Users Group, Jerry Price from Tex Comp, Tom Freeman and Jim Lohmeyer from T and J Software, Rich Carroll from DIJIT, Mike Wright representing Peter Hoddie's Genial Computerware, John McDermott from Rave99, Ray Kazmer of WoodStock fame, T.A.P.E. with their innovative mouse system and other goodies for the 99 was there as were B.J. and Jack Mathis from the SouthWest 99ers in Tucson. The Mathis family members were featured in the December 1988 edition of PC Computing magazine in a marvelous article about orphaned computers entitled "Gone But Not Forgotten".As an information item for you PR BASE V2.1 users, Jack Mathis has re-written the PR BASE utilities programs by John Johnson to work with the Mike Dodd V2.1 version. If you are interested in procuring a copy write to Jack care of the Southwest 99ers, Box 17831 Tucson, Az. 85730. Jack is an up and coming assembly language programmer who I hope to hear more from in the future. I never asked about the actual attendance figures, but I can reasonably say that attendance was well into the hundreds. It was so neat to be apart of it all. Fest coordinator Woody Wilson even let me give a seminar on TI-Base on Saturday afternoon. Other seminars were given by Regena, Barry Traver and Woody himself. The Fest was sponsored this year by the Southern California Computer Group, Box 21181 El Cajon, CA 92021. Thanks to the ladies and gentlemen of the SCCG for their hard work and excellent organization. It was a GREAT event! There is  talk already of Fest-West '90 taking place in Tucson. I hope so. I've  never been to Tucson and I can't think of a better excuse to go than aTI Faire."

APR 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • Andi Wise of the Eugene, Oregon TI User Group releases a 500 record database on names and addresses of past and current 99/4A User Groups. The file is written for Mark Beck's Creative Filing System. A TI-Base adaptation of the Andi Wise UG database is released by Bill Gaskill.
  • MICROpendium announces that it will begin offering programs on disk that appear within the pages of its magazine.
  • The 4th Annual TI Fayuh takes place on April 1st in Woburn, MA.
  • The Ottawa TI Fair takes place on April 28th. Ottawa User Group member Gary Bowser, dba as Oasis Pensive Abucators (OPA) releases DISKODEX during the fair.
  • Charles Earl, author of the popular TELCO terminal emulator tells attendees at the Ottawa TI Fair that he will be releasing HOT BUG, a program he developed for debugging the PRESS word processor. The program runs out of a GRAM Kracker or SuperCart, leaving a full 32K RAM for your program.
  • Archiver III v3.03 is released by Barry Boone.
  • My-Art Picture Viewer is released by Barry Boone.
  • Jesse Slicer, Olathe, Kansas, releases first utility to park the read/write head on a Myarc HFDC managed hard disk.
  • Randy Moore, Edwards AFB, California, releases Sector One, the first sector editor that's designed to work on hard drive sectors.
  • Page Pro 99 by Ed Johnson is announced by Asgard Software.
  • Music Pro, by David Caron and Lucie Dorais of the Ottawa TI-99/4A Users, is released by Asgard Software.
  • MICROpendium announces that it will be selling disks with the programs from each issue.
  • TexComp Users Supply announces that it will be sponsoring a conference in July in Hawaii, on business applications for the TI-99/4A computer.
  • Using the Navarone Data Base Manager book is released by Bill Gaskill.
  • Glenn Bernasek, dba GEE BEE BASICS, releases TI Short Sheet III v2.1.

MAY 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • McCann Software announces the creation of a FORTH programming language adaptation for the Myarc Geneve computer.
  • The Fourth European Tref computer fair is announced. It is to take place in in the Netherlands on October 7th.
  • Paolo Bagnaresi announces that he has created a procedure to allow the Myarc 512K Memory Card to work with the Geneve 9640, but cautions that the procedure is irreversible, so it will not work with the 99/4A after the modifications.
  • Gary Bowser of Oasis Pensive Abacutors (OPA) announces that he is doing work on a Z80 card to run inside the 99/4A's Peripheral Expansion Box. The card supposedly will allow the running of Z80 assembly code plus ColecoVision games?
  • Joe Ross releases cSHELL99, an Icon based user interface for the TI-99/4A.
  • Al Beard, author of 99 FORTRAN and the more powerful 9640 Fortran, promises an upgrade of 99 FORTRAN to V4.0.
  • AV-Indexer by Don and Aaron West is released by Genial Computerware.
  • J. Peter Hoddie announces the creation of MY-Word Externals, a way to add new commands and keypresses to MY-WORD. Hoddie also intimates that a new Print Shop-like utility is in the works that will contain a powerful printer driver that will support third-party add-ins.
  • Word reaches the TI Community that Gene Krawczyk of the Adelaide TI Computer Club in South Australia has written a new language called "G". It is said to be similar to TI BASIC but without any line numbers. (TI-CHIPS, May 1989, p.10)

JUN 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • Barry Boone of Sand Springs, Oklahoma announces the release of a new bug-free EPROM for Mechatronics 80-column display cards that supports any CRU base, and that includes an 80-column version of the John Johnson Menu 7.3 for a Horizon Ram Disk and more.
  • Gene Hitz, dba Arcade Action Software, releases Touchdown, a professional football (game outcome) prediction program.
  • The Users Group of Orange County, CA (UGOC) elects Barry A. Traver to their Hall of Fame.
  • The TI Community receives word that Impact 99 / New Age 99 author Jack Sughrue has been involved in a serious auto accident, which will keep him from contributing his popular articles to User Group newsletters until his recovery.
  • TEXAMENTS, Patchogue, NY, announces a software compatibility certification program for TI-Artist and TI-Base. It goes no where.
  • John Guion releases Console Debugging Help, a 16-page document designed to help with troubleshooting hardware problems that occur within the TI-99/4A console.
  • Coleco (Connecticut Leather Company), maker of the Colecovision video game console (1982), and the ADAM Home Computer (Jun 1983 - Jan 1985) goes out of business after failing to win acceptance of its bankruptcy reorganization plan. It's assets are gobbled up by creditors such as Hasbro.
  • Great Lakes Software announces a 50% off sale on its software line.
  • Chris Bobbitt reports on the FIDO network that 'very good' progress has been made on redoing the Press word processor.
  • Wesley R. Richardson, of the Northcoast 99ers in Cleveland, OH, releases Instance-X, an assembly language utility to convert TI-Artist Instances to a file suitable for use with TI-BASE 2.01 or higher. (TI-CHIPS June 1989, p.7)
  • The Source, the first commercial online information service to support the TI-99/4 computer by incorporating TEXNET, is purchased by CompuServe.

    “CompuServe, Inc. (Columbus, OH) acquired Source Telecomputing, Inc. (McLean, VA) in late June for approximately $7 million. The acquisition makes CompuServe the top consumer-oriented online service. Both companies have been in competition since the late seventies - with The Source trailing behind for nearly the past decade. CompuServe is a subsidiary of the H&R Block Company (Kansas City, MO) and reported a 1988 pretax earnings of $30.6 million on Revenues of $173.1 million. While CompuServe boasts of having about 500,000 online users, a majority of that number includes at-home PC users who typically logon only several times per year. CompuServe was evaluating some Source services during the summer which might be transferred to CompuServe. All Source subscribers and services were transferred to CompuServe during August. (COMPUSERVE ACQUIRES THE SOURCE. , Online Newsletter, 09-01-1989)

JUL 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • Jim Uzzell of DDI Software announces the release of APPOINTMENT SCHEDULER for the Myarc Geneve computer and ARTIST UTILITY, a companion product for use with TI-ARTIST.
  • Harrison Software releases a new Word Processor for the TI-99/4A.
  • Tymnet announces Starlink, a service that allows long distance calling of a BBS without the long distance charges.
  • TI-SORT from Inscebot Inc. is released by distributor Texaments.
  • Texaments releases Artist Companion disks #10-13.

AUG 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • MICROpendium announces a subscription rate increase to take effect Oct. 15th.
  • Memex memory expansion unit for the Myarc Geneve is released by Bud Mills Services.
  • Asgard Software releases Legends II and MDOS Conversion Notes.
  • McCann Software releases The Printer's Apprentice for the Myarc Geneve 9640.
  • Giant Art Posters by Paul Coleman is released by Comprodine.
  • Disk of Pyrates by Ken Gilliland is released by Asgard Software.
  • Designer Labels v2.4 is released by Texaments.
  • GenProg program development software for the Geneve is released by Paul Charlton, through Jeff Guide's Disk Only Software company.
  • Ron Prewitt of Tacoma, Washington releases Columntext v4.2.
  • Production begins on the Zenoboard protyping board created by Eric Zeno.
  • Hardmaster, a hard disk editor for the Myarc HFDC controller hard disk, debuts from Asgard Software. Program author is Australian Colin Christensen.
  • Dr. Guy Steffen-Romano, the original custodian of the IUG's user-written software library, dies on August 15th. He was 57 years old.
  • Barry Boone releases EXEC utility for the Myarc Geneve.
  • J. Peter Hoddie (James Peter Hoddie), formerly of the Boston Computer Society, owner of Genial Computerware, and assembly language programming wizard on a TI-99/4A, hires on at Apple Computer.

SEP 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • P-Gram and Multi-Mod creator John Guion of Lubbock, Texas is killed in an auto accident on September 8th, while going from Lubbock to Dallas. He was 22.
  • J. Peter Hoddie announces that Genial Computerware has changed its name to JP Software.
  • Texaments formally announces the release of TI-Artist Plus!, an upgrade for Inscebot's TI-Artist graphics program.
  • Mickey Schmitt's Adventure Reference Guide book is released by Asgard Software.
  • Asgard Software releases Sports Pics and Page Pro Utilities for Page Pro 99, both written by Paul E. Scheidemantle of Troy, Michigan.
  • The TI Roundtable on GEnie opens a Page Pro file section.
  • Pix Pro artist picture conversion utility by Jim Reiss is released by Asgard Software.
  • Andy Frueh releases Picasso Companion I disk.
  • The Mid-Atlantic 99ers sponsor the TI International Expo 89 fair in Alexandria, VA on September 16th.
  • On September 15th, Quantum Computer Services of Vienna, VA renames it’s service to America On-Line.

OCT 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • Tony Lewis of Raleigh, North Carolina announces the release of a new hardware book The Interface Standard and Design Guide for TI-99/4A Peripherals.
  • Turmoil strikes the Front Range 99ers Computer Club in Colorado Springs, as evidenced by this newsbyte from Dave Ratcliffe, writing in the Central Pennsylvania User Group Newsletter.
    • "Interesting goings on at the Front Range 99ers UG (Colorado Springs). They voted to STAY a TI ONLY user group after a challenge to become essentially an IBM group with a TI SIG, with, if he had his way, Joe Nuvolini as President. Joe said if the club voted to stay TI only, he'd run for President of the local IBM group. If they voted to allow IBM in, Joe would graciously stay on and run for President of the Front Range group! What a magnanimous gesture from a man who doesn't even OWN a TI or Geneve! Was he looking for his own little fiefdom or what?

      Maybe Joe supported TI in the past, but it is clear that his support stops short of owning one or running for office in a group that doesn't support what he wants. Harry Brashear, in his letter to the editor in the September Front Range Newsletter, stated that if FR went clone that the TI'er will be 'delegated to the back of the bus'.

      Just look at the Brevard UG. I can't remember the last time I saw a TI article in their newsletter. I agree with Harry. If FR had gone clone the TI owners might as well have left quietly and started meeting in someone's living room. They'd be getting more info there than at a monthly UG meeting.

      Congratulations to Front Range for beating back this threat.

      By the way, word from my semi-inside sources is that Mr. Nuvolini and one of his cohorts left the meeting in something less than good humor after the voting was completed. Guess he'll just have to settle for being King...uh, er Chairman of the local IBM group."

  • Computer Shopper magazine drops the TI FORUM column by Barry Traver and Jonathan Zittrain, as well as all other "Classic Computer" columns.
  • Texaments releases Starfleet Technical Drawings II for TI-Artist and TI-Artist Plus!.
  • TI-WRITER SUPPLEMENT MANUAL published by the Chicago TI Users Group is said to be nearing completion and will be available by November 1.
  • Picasso v2.0, Picasso Borders, Picasso Enlarger, Picasso Utilities and the book Using Picasso are all released by Asgard Software.
  • MICROpendium publisher John Koloen starts a series of monthly articles on "EXPANDING YOUR SYSTEM".
  • Advanced BASIC for the Myarc Geneve is reported to be near completion.
  • McCann Software presents its 1989 Pagemanship award to Ken Gilliland for his execellent tutorials on use of The Printer's Apprentice.
  • The Central Pennsylvania Users Group puts on the Third Annual CPUG Computer Expo on October 15th at the Carlisle, PA Fairgrounds.

NOV 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • TRIS, a Jim Reiss take-off of the TETRIS game written by a Russian, is released by Asgard Software.
  • Gene Hitz, of Arcade Action Software, releases Touchdown 89, Snowmobile Derby, Moon Run and Cut Throat Cribbage.
  • Comprodine releases Color Card and Color Flyer graphics programs for the XR-1000 printer, Artist Print Shop by Paul Coleman and Living Tomb and War Zone games by Quinton Tormannen.
  • Texaments releases Mailing List Manager for TI-Base, written by Bill Gaskill.
  • Asgard Software releases Karate Challenge and Mission Destruct! games by Glenn Schworak.
  • Sports Pics, a companion disk for PAGE PRO 99 or TI-ARTIST written by Paul Coleman, is released by Asgard Software.
  • Texaments assumes exclusive distribution of Barry Boone's Exec program for the Geneve.
  • Myarc's Lou Phillips reports that John Birdwell has begun work on the tape streamer backup software for use with the HFDC card.
  • Asgard Software releases Doom Games III  by Ken Gilliland, the company's 100th product.
  • Asgard Software begins offering NEW module-based software for the 99/4A when it announces the release of Typewriter 99 and Tris in module versions.
  • The Chicago TI-Faire takes place on November 4th in Rolling Meadows, IL. It is followed on November 5th by the Milwaukee TI-Faire.

DEC 1989: The Southwest 99ers newsletter.

  • Texaments releases PUBLICATIONS INDEX for use with TI-Base.-JP Software announces the release of Firstbase v1.1.
  • Texaments releases The Organizer! for TI-Base, written by Bill Gaskill.
  • The Boston Computer Society announces the impending release of a manual on using the 99/4A P-Code System.
  • Travis Watford releases T-Shell99, an assembly language coded utility that provides DOS-like commands to the 99/4A operating system.
  • ATARI -- On December 8th, Sig Hartmann, Sam Tramiel's right-hand man at Commodore and Atari and one of his oldest friends, has left Atari for a new job as executive vice president of Televideo.

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