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Hey, TI99/4a bro!
That was also my first computer. Did you have the sweet voice synthesizer that sounded kinda like the AI from Wargames?
Nope, could not afford that. I didn't even have a casette player to save what I wrote on that machine, at least at the beginning.
Aww, that's too bad. It was a total gimmick, but it was actually used by a lot of the (very subpar) games. Later in the TI99/4a life they were selling it super cheap or bundling it with games, which is how we got it. You could even get it to saw words directly from TI BASIC.