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TI-99 was my first real computer bought in 1982 for $50 from K-mart. I learned to program on it. I remember buying a few "whatever" games to get the speech synthesizer for cheap (or free?). Took forever to save enough money to buy Extended Basic so I could do sprites and stuff.

Fun times. I still have it in the original box with all the carts and speech synthesizer. I always wanted that big expansion module with the disk drives. Never could afford it.

A few years later got an excellent deal on a used C64 and moved on to it where it was a little more open platform.

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My Mom got one for me when I was about 6 or 7. Oh man, that speech synthesizer was amazing. It felt so cool to make it say stuff. I also learned to program on that thing. I used it for years. I still have it in the box too :)