Here's a don't-miss article on the internal politics and strategy behind TI's early personal computing efforts:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=wy4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63&lpg=PA...

The rest of that magazine issue is pretty interesting too, including the interview with Ann Winblad, fresh off her $15M exit. ("The male mystique was killed for me at age 2.")