What strikes me about this article is the disparity between how much TI-99/4A hackers love that machine and the TMS9900 vs. how much the TI leadership of the time seem to hate it.
There's virtually no inside information written down about the history of this chip, so this was pretty fascinating.
The love/hate thing might have been related to the eventual fire sale pricing.
Towards the end, you could pick them up for $200, which was unheard of for that class of PC. Easy to see why that would draw an adoring audience while frustrating TI.
There's virtually no inside information written down about the history of this chip, so this was pretty fascinating.