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=TI discontinues software=
Texas. Instruments is no longer in the business of selling home computer products.
As of March 30, the company stopped shipping its remaining home computer products to vendors and none will be available from the company in the future.
A company spokesman said that the company will continue to honor warranties on its products, including software and hardware. Users may continue to bring defective equipment to TI's exchange centers for replacement but the exchange centers will no longer sell or distribute the products.
The spokeswoman noted that TI will continue to maintain its Loll-free telephone number to help home computer users.
The spokeswoman said she knows of no companies that have worked out licensing agreements to continue production of TI home computer software or hardware that have not already been announced.
Of course, scores of companies large and small are independently producing software and hardware for the TI99/4A. At this point, however, production of such cartridge-based programs as Extended BASIC, Microsoft Multiplan, TI-Writer and Terminal Emulator II has ended.
The spokeswoman did not rule out the possibility that other companies might eventually pick up production of such TI-licensed products.
