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98Cobra
05-05-2003, 02:18 PM
TI Travelmate 2000. No battery(leaked a long time ago). It does come with an AC adapter however. The machine is an 80286-12 with a 20 MB harddrive, monochrome display, 3-1/2 floppy. Its only probably useful for some datalogging applications, etc. The owners manual is still available online here: http://www.acersupport.com/library/tm2000ug.pdf

Own a piece of history, free! Act now! :cool:

http://home1.gte.net/garett/P4250001.JPG

Tony2000
05-08-2003, 12:10 AM
I will take it off your hands...:beer:

98Cobra
05-08-2003, 01:41 AM
Its yours. Lucky too, the Smithsonian called but I hook TALON bruthas up. :D

Name your time and place!

Logan
05-08-2003, 09:32 AM
mmmmmmmmmmmm.... Paperweight.... :)

blueoval01
05-08-2003, 10:30 AM
Originally posted by Logan
mmmmmmmmmmmm.... Paperweight.... :)

Hummmm ... boat anchor ....... ;)

Mark #2
05-09-2003, 08:54 AM
Hey, I think that that is a generation newer than mine at home.

98Cobra
05-09-2003, 09:16 AM
Not quite, Mark. :) I think that one probably predates yours by about oh, at least 6-8 years.

Mark #2
05-09-2003, 09:22 AM
Yeah, I know, just kidding, one of the laptop's at home is a TI5000, and they could be collector's items.
Speak and Spells and TI LCD watches are in the Smithsonian, so the now defunct TI laptop could be too.

dboat
05-09-2003, 01:15 PM
my first computer at work was a Radio Shack Model 1 running TRS-DOS affectionately known as trash dos,,,now that was a real computing machine... :vomit:

:roll Dana

L8 APEX
05-09-2003, 03:26 PM
I had a TRS 80 know as the Trash 80. It played games off of cassette tapes:D Space Invaders, and Asteroids:roll

Moonshine
05-09-2003, 04:35 PM
Never owned one, but I remember the Trash 80's.

Also remember the TI watches, but weren't the very first ones LED rather than LCD? I remember the numerals lit up in red when you pushed the button. Never owned one of those either. :tongue:

Sixpipes
05-09-2003, 04:41 PM
That is one big-a$$ laptop. :cool:

Mark #2
05-09-2003, 04:42 PM
Moonshine,
You are correct. LEDs first. George H. invented the LCD and then came to work for TI.
http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/heilmeier.html

During the watch production timeframe TI decided that there wasn't any future in the LCD display business and canned the program.

dboat
05-09-2003, 05:01 PM
the watches befoe I threw it away..
and I upgraded the cassette drive to a single sided, single density 5.25" disk drive for better data saving and retrieval..

boy those were the days werent they:roll

Dana

Tony2000
05-12-2003, 10:29 PM
thanks man this is tony my #972-241-5350
any time is good let me know