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- Business Week
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- December 27, 1982 / January 3, 1983, Industrial Edition
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- SECTION: INFORMATION PROCESSING; BRIEFS; Pg. 44 B
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- LENGTH: 64 words
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- "Unusually strong" demand generated by its $100 rebate
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- Industry Week
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- March 5, 1984
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- Home computers stop ticking at Timex
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- SECTION: NEWSCOPE; Pg. 15
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- LENGTH: 142 words
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- Timex Corp. is the latest company to leave the home-computer field, an industry
- one Timex official describes as "on a kamikaze path."
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- PR Newswire
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- August 3, 1982, Tuesday
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- LENGTH: 136 words
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- DATELINE: DALLAS, Aug. 2
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- DALLAS, Aug. 2 /PRN/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) today confirmed
- details of its $100 consumer rebate program
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- Business Week
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- December 27, 1982 / January 3, 1983, Industrial Edition
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- SECTION: INFORMATION PROCESSING; BRIEFS; Pg. 44 B
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- LENGTH: 64 words
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- "Unusually strong" demand generated by its $100 rebate
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-
- WALL STREET JOURNAL
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- June 1, 1979, Friday
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- BYLINE: BY RICHARD A SHAFFER
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- SECTION: Page 29, Column 4
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- LENGTH: 43 words
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- Texas Instruments Inc announces TI-99 home computer
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- Business Week
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- December 8, 1980
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- Personal computers: TI's jazzed-up pitch
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- SECTION: EXECUTIVE SUITE; Pg. 28
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- LENGTH: 730 words
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- Texas Instruments Inc. launched its entry into the fiedgling home computer market
- 18 months ago, only to have most of the machines end up gathering dust
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- The New York Times
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- November 1, 1983, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition
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- A SEESAW DAY FOR COMPUTERS
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- BYLINE: By ANDREW POLLACK
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- SECTION: Section D; Page 1, Column 3; Financial Desk
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- LENGTH: 853 words
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- Talk about chaos.
- The price of Texas Instruments stock shot up and the price of its home computer
- shot down yesterday in the wake of the company's withdrawal from the turbulent home
- computer market.
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- The New York Times
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- September 16, 1983, Friday, Late City Final Edition
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- Advertising:
- Parental Guilt and Computers
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- BYLINE: By Philip H. Dougherty
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- SECTION: Section D; Page 13, Column 3; Financial Desk
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- LENGTH: 623 words
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- TROUBLED Texas Instruments, having scrapped a short-lived ad campaign that replaced
- price promotion with product promotion, is now borrowing a page from the
- encyclopedia salesan's guide and is using the time-tested parental guilt ploy.
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- Electronic News, Oct 31, 1983 v29 n1469 p50
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- Atari: TI Suit Threat is Baseless.
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- Abstract: Atari has increased production of ROM-based cartridge software for the
- Texas Instruments (TI) 99-4A home computer.
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- Copyright 1983 Associated Press
- All Rights Reserved
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- The Associated Press
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- These materials may not be republished without the express written consent of
- The Associated Press
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- October 28, 1983, Friday, AM cycle
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- SECTION: Business News
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- LENGTH: 944 words
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- HEADLINE: Texas Instruments Pulls Out of Home Computers After $110 Million Loss
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- DATELINE: DALLAS
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- BODY:
- Texas Instruments Inc. pulled out of the volatile home-computer market Friday
- after it reported losing $110.8 million in the third quarter in addition to a
- $119.2 million loss in the previous quarter.
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- The Economist
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- August 22, 1981
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- Chips that speak and hear
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- SECTION: Business, finance and science; SCIENCE BRIEF; Pg. 80 (U.S. Edition Pg. 72)
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- "Here is the news"
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- So far, most speech-synthesis chips have gone into electronic toys and learning
- aids.
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- The Globe and Mail (Canada)
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- June 17, 1983 Friday
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- Computers a pitfall for Texas Instruments
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- BYLINE: GAM
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- LENGTH: 742 words
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- Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas has become the latest company to take a
- tumble in the increasingly treacherous home-computer market,
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- Copyright 1983 The Nihon Keizai Shimbun
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- The Japan Economic Journal
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- March 29, 1983
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- SECTION: SERVICE/LEISURE/FOOD; Pg. 16
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- LENGTH: 224 words
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- HEADLINE: Texas Instruments secures video game software
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- BODY:
- Data East Co., a leading game machine manufacturer, has granted Texas
- Instruments Inc. right to produce and market its software on video games for
- personal computers.
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- The Economist
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- June 9, 1979
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- Family computers;
- Going cheap
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- SECTION: BUSINESS, ECONOMICS AND SCIENCE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Pg. 106
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- LENGTH: 620 words
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- DATELINE: San Mateo
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- No less than seven new personal computers were launched in the United States last
- week, including the long-awaited entry to this market of Texas Instruments with a
- system costing $1,150. RCA, Atari and APF also joined the home computer fray.
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- Business Week
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- October 22, 1979, Industrial Edition
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- SECTION: INFORMATION PROCESSING; Briefs; Pg. 128J
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- LENGTH: 160 words
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- Now that the Federal Communications Commission has waived its strict rules on
- testing home computers while it considers even tighter regulations,
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- Financial Times (London,England)
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- August 17, 1983, Wednesday
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- Home computer industry pulls the plug on profits
-
- BYLINE: Louise Kehoe
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- SECTION: SECTION IV; International Companies and Finance; June 1 -- August 8;
- This supplement covers the major international company and financial news during
- the period the Financial Times was not published; Pg. IV
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- LENGTH: 986 words
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- HIGHLIGHT: Louise Kehoe in San Francisco looks at how the price wars sparked by
- Texas Instruments and Atari have affected the leading U.S. manufacturers.
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- Copyright 1983 McGraw-Hill, Inc.
- Business Week
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- View Related Topics
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- June 27, 1983
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- SECTION: CORPORATE CASH; Pg. 26
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- LENGTH: 788 words
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- HEADLINE: HOW TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SHOT ITSELF IN THE FOOT
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- BODY:
- It was late on a Friday afternoon after the New York markets had closed. With
- virtually no warning, Texas Instruments Inc. announced that it would post a
- second-quarter loss of $100 million.
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- Electronic News, Dec 12, 1983 v29 n1475 p86
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- Milton Bradley Scraps Voice Module. M. Halper.
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- Abstract: Milton Bradley has decided not to market a voice recognition device for
- the Texas Instruments 99-4A home computer. Earlier in 1983 Milton Bradley filed a
- $43 million law suit against Atari for failing to honor an agreement for the purchase
- of the same device. Sales for the first nine months of 1983 were $242 million with
- earnings of $42,000. The low earnings were caused by the problems Milton Bradley had
- with the voice module.
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- WALL STREET JOURNAL
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- June 4, 1979, Monday
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- SECTION: Page 14, Column 3
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- LENGTH: 43 words
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- Milton Bradley Co will market entertainment cartridges for home computers.
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- PR Newswire
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- December 21, 1982, Tuesday
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- LENGTH: 262 words
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- DATELINE: SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 21
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- SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 21 /PRN/ -- The Milton Bradley Company
- and Texas Instruments Incorporated announced a development which
- will, for the first time, make human voice recognition available in a
- popular home computer.
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- Copyright 1983 The New York Times Company
- The New York Times
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- February 11, 1983, Friday, Late City Final Edition
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- SECTION: Section D; Page 4, Column 2; Financial Desk
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- LENGTH: 107 words
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- HEADLINE: Chip Developed
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- BODY:
- The General Instrument Corporation and the Milton Bradley Company said they had
- developed the first computer chip that can both recognize speech
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- Business Week
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- August 22, 1983
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- MILTON BRADLEY MISSES AGAIN IN VIDEO GAMES
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- SECTION: EXECUTIVE SUITE; Pg. 40
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- LENGTH: 718 words
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- After initially underestimating the potential of video games, toymaker Milton
- Bradley Co. in late 1982 announced what appeared to be a hot new entry:
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- Copyright 1982 McGraw-Hill, Inc.
- Business Week
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- View Related Topics
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- May 24, 1982
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- SECTION: CORPORATE STRATEGIES; Pg. 110
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- LENGTH: 1310 words
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- HEADLINE: Milton Bradley: Playing catch-up in the video-game market
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- BODY:
- For a company with healthy profits, low debt, and a long-lived product line,
- Milton Bradley Co. (MB) is in a surprisingly serious predicament. The
- Springfield (Mass.) toymaker missed the boat in electronic video games,
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- PR Newswire
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- May 18, 1983, Wednesday
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- LENGTH: 466 words
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- DATELINE: Dallas, May 18
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- Dallas, May 18 /PRN/ -- Texas Instruments, in an
- announcement made today, reaffirmed its position regarding
- solid-state cartridge software for the TI 99/4A home computer.
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- Financial Times (London,England)
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- November 21, 1983, Monday
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- Texas gives guarantees
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- BYLINE: EDITED BY ALAN CANE
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- SECTION: SECTION I; Technology; Home computers; Pg. 13
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- LENGTH: 148 words
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- AFTER RECENT announcements about its withdrawal from the home computer
- market, Texas Instruments has made it clear that all TI 99/4A owners will
- continue to get cover under guarantee
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- PR Newswire
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- March 2, 1983, Wednesday
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- LENGTH: 477 words
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- DATELINE: DALLAS, March 1
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- DALLAS, March 1 /PRN/ -- Texas Instruments announced
- today that its voluntary program is under way to correct a
- potential defect recently discovered in the transformer sold
- with its 99/4A home computers.
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- The Associated Press
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- February 23, 1983, Wednesday, PM cycle
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- TI Reports Problem With Computer Transformer Adapter Cord
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- SECTION: Domestic News
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- LENGTH: 316 words
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- DATELINE: DALLAS
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- Owners of Texas Instruments' popular 99-4A personal computer have been advised to
- contact the company about fixing a transformer that could pose an electrical hazard.
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- PR Newswire
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- February 22, 1983, Tuesday
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- LENGTH: 360 words
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- DATELINE: DALLAS, Feb. 22
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- DALLAS, Feb. 22 /PRN/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated announced
- today that it is discussing with the Consumer Products Safety
- Commission a proposed distribution by TI of a transformer adapter
- cord to all known owners of its 99/4A home computers.
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- The Associated Press
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- February 22, 1983, Tuesday, AM cycle
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- SECTION: Domestic News
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- LENGTH: 418 words
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- DATELINE: DALLAS
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- Texas Instruments Inc. said Tuesday that all owners of its popular 99-4A personal
- computer should contact the company about modifying a part that could give users a
- high-voltage electrical shock.
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- Financial Times (London,England)
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- August 4, 1982, Wednesday
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- Texas Instruments cuts price of home computer by a third
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- BYLINE: BY LOUISE KEHOE IN SAN FRANCISCO
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- SECTION: SECTION I; Pg. 14
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- LENGTH: 346 words
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- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, the U.S. electronics company, has cut the price of its
- home computer by a third, in the highly competitive lowcost home computer market.
- The TI 99/4A, has been selling in the U.S. for $299.
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- Business Week
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- December 26, 1977, Industrial Edition
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- 'The first entry-level home computer'
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- SECTION: TECHNOLOGY, Pg. 44c
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- LENGTH: 630 words
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- With the program cartridge and micro-processor pushing the video game in the
- direction of a true home computer,
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- Business Week
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- March 19, 1979, Industrial Edition
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- TI gets set to move into home computers
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- SECTION: ELECTRONICS; Pg. 37
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- LENGTH: 800 words
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- HIGHLIGHT: A product announcement is expected soon. An FCC waiver is possible
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- Texas Instruments Inc. is finally making a move to get into the personal computer
- business
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- NEW YORK TIMES
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- December 6, 1978, Wednesday
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- BYLINE: BY PETER J SCHUYTEN
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- SECTION: Section 4; Page 4, Column 1
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- LENGTH: 94 words
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- Home computer technology is nearing take-off stage
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- The Associated Press
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- February 23, 1983, Wednesday, PM cycle
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- TI Reports Problem With Computer Transformer Adapter Cord
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- SECTION: Domestic News
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- LENGTH: 316 words
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- DATELINE: DALLAS
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- Owners of Texas Instruments' popular 99-4A personal computer have been advised to
- contact the company about fixing a transformer that could pose an electrical hazard.
-
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- The Associated Press
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- October 12, 1983, Wednesday, AM cycle
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- TI Will Not Introduce New Home Computer This Year
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- SECTION: Business News
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- LENGTH: 694 words
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- DATELINE: DALLAS
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- Texas Instruments Inc. confirmed Wednesday it will not introduce a new home computer
- this year, asserting it never intended to despite reports to the contrary.
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- Business Week
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- June 11, 1979, Industrial Edition
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- Computers for the home
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- SECTION: IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK; Companies; Pg. 44
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- LENGTH: 120 words
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- Texas Instruments Inc. decided on May 29 to introduce one of its home computers
- after all, just days after it had elected to hold off until it got permission from
- the Federal Communications Commission to hook up the system to a home TV
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- PR Newswire
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- May 6, 1982, Thursday
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- LENGTH: 314 words
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- DATELINE: DALLAS, May 6
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- DALLAS, May 6 /PRN/ -- Control Data Corporation and Texas
- Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced an agreement that
- will make available a comprehensive series of PLATO computer-based
- education courseware for the Texas Instruments 99/4A Home
- Computer.
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- Business Week
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- May 9, 1983, Industrial Edition
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- TI MOVES TO PUT ITS HOUSE IN ORDER
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- SECTION: INFORMATION PROCESSING; BRIEFS; Pg. 114 D
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- LENGTH: 141 words
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- To reduce the internal rivalry between its two small-computer manufacturing groups,
- Texas Instruments Inc. has decided that for the first time both of them should
- report to the same executive.
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- Retailing Home Furnishings, Feb 7, 1983 v57 pC3(3)
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- T.I.'s Bill Turner. (Texas Instruments) Lisa Braden.
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- Full Text: COPYRIGHT Fairchild Publications Inc. 1983
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- TI.'s Bill Turner
- In the short history of the home computer market, august 4, 1982, stands out as a
- red letter date. On that day, Texas Instruments announced a $100 rebate on its
- TI 99/4A console,
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- Business Week
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- June 18, 1979, Industrial Edition
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- TI's easy-to-use home computer
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- SECTION: INFORMATION PROCESSING; Computers; Pg. 108 F
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- LENGTH: 440 words
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- While Texas Instruments Inc. in early June again decided not to make its
- long-expected announcement of a low-priced, consumer-oriented personal computer,
- it did introduce its intermediate-size home computer, called 99/4 and priced at
- $1,150.
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- Copyright 1983 Associated Press
- All Rights Reserved
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- The Associated Press
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- These materials may not be republished without the express written consent of
- The Associated Press
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- November 2, 1983, Wednesday, AM cycle
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- SECTION: Business News
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- LENGTH: 394 words
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- HEADLINE: Stores Selling Out Discontinued 99-4A, But Up To 1 Million Said
- Remaining
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- BYLINE: By SCOTT McCARTNEY, Associated Press Writer
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- DATELINE: DALLAS
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- BODY:
- Consumers are flocking to buy Texas Instruments Inc.'s discontinued 99-4A home
- computer,
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- Copyright 1983 The New York Times Company
- The New York Times
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- February 13, 1983, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
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- SECTION: Section 3; Page 27, Column 4; Financial Desk
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- LENGTH: 284 words
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- HEADLINE: WHAT'S NEW IN THE TOY INDUSTRY:
- BASHING KILLER RATS
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- BYLINE: By Phillip Shenon
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- BODY:
- The Milton Bradley Company has come up with a set of video game cartridges that do
- more than flash pretty pictures and make sounds.
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- Business Week
- December 19, 1983
- WHY SANTA'S BAG WILL BE SHORT ON HOME COMPUTERS
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- SECTION: MARKETING; Pg. 66
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- EXCITED BY DEMAND.
- Ironically, instead of stalling demand, these events seem to have whetted consumer
- appetites.