TI’s answer to the 41 and peripherals

[Gene]

TI seems to have been caught a bit flat-footed when the HP-41 series came out - thinking that the TI-59 and TI-58c (announced a month (?) before the 41C) were going to stay at or near the top.

The calculators TI came out with can be examined at datamath.org if you like.

The TI-66 is nice, but TERRIBLY slow. Had alpha for the program step instructions, but no alpha messages.

The other factors were a flirtation with the handheld BASIC machines and the entry of TI into the home computer market, with the TI-99/4A