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Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com)

submitted 3 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When I was a kid my folks bought the TI 99/4A for some ridiculous reason. It's interesting to look back at the weird hardware that never made it, like the cartridges that thing used instead of 5¼" floppies that were also out at the time. Maybe it reminded them of inserting 8 tracks.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The TI99 had an (optional) external expansion box that allowed it to use floppy disks.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Never saw the floppy external, but at some point we ended up with a peripheral that read data off cassettes.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I think the 99/4A also had a cassette tape drive you could buy. I don't think they ever made a floppy drive for it though.