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Re:Story of Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 ... by shrubble on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:15PM (#33630735)
Look up the Singer System 10...
Re:Story of Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 ... by retrocryptid on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:13PM (#33632357)
Slightly related... I heard someone at Tandy say that when they were pitching the TRS-80, they said "hey, if the computers aren't popular, we can give them to each store to use for inventory tracking." -- That was probably around '75 / '76 when they were pitching the idea. Same time frame.