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I found an article in a publication titled "Yesterday's News" from October 2016 written by Paul Urbanus that I include here. The article may have been published before in another publication and republished in "Yesterday's News", but I couldn't find an earlier publication of it. Here is that article in its entirety:
''by Paul Urbanus''
I would like to clarify and correct some of the statements made in the original posting of the below article. To help substantiate comments, I will start with a history of my relationship with the TI-99/4A Home Computer.
I was hired by TI in December of 1979 as a coop student, and spent six months working for the Home Computer Division of TI in Lubbock. During this time, I did such diverse things as gather statistics on the distribution of data in the various GROM chips and program and HP test station to verify that the RF modulators were meeting FCC and TI specifications. In my spare time, I purchased a surplus IBM terminal keyboard (a really nice one) and interfaced it to the 99/4. This was the first REAL keyboard for the 99/4. I even added logic to do auto-repeat and mapped the IBM cursor keys to function correctly. My coop term expired, the fun ended, and I went back to school (New Mexico State University) for a year.
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