TI-99/4A Hardware for Survivors

The Major Pieces

Console (keyboard and motherboard)
(includes power conversion module)

TI Extended Basic Module

TI Editor/Assembler Module

Peripheral Expansion Box
(Plugs into side port on console
provides power for various expansion cards)

Monitor or Modulator/TV
(with monitor, use an audio/video cable
with TV, use a modulator supplied with console)

Joysticks
(TI type originally called wired remote controllers)

Disk Drive System
(Original TI type with SS/SD 5 1/4 inch drive
system included Disk controller for 3 drives)

32K Memory Card
(Plug-in to Peripheral Expansion Box)

TI Speech Synthesizer
(Plug-in to side of console)

RS-232 Interface Card
(Included a parallel port output suitable
for driving printers, plus two RS232 ports)

    The above listed items might be said to constitute a "core" system.  The majority of current TI-99/4A Users have systems made up of AT LEAST those items.  To those items, many have added other bits and pieces, and these were NOT built by Texas Instruments.

Extra Pieces - Third Party Hardware

Ramdisk Cards (Horizon are most popular)

Disk Controllers (Myarc and CorComp)

Hard Drive systems (old type)

Hard Drive Systems (SCSI)

Mini Expansion system (CorComp)

High Performance Card Set
(newly produced in Germany)

Myarc Geneve 9640 Computer
(effectively a complete new computer
with some commonality to the 99/4A)