[butterisgood]

Uh... brother?!

Just kidding... That sounds like my journey as well. I had friends in the neighborhood who also had the TI-99/4a. We all had Cub Scouts and Boy's Life magazine listings to key in.

Did you have the data cassette recorder? We used to try to "load programs" from Michael Jackson's Thriller album.

[matthewsinclair]

Yep. Totally. And there was this dreadful wait for a load that could (randomly) fail and you’d need to go thru the whole process again!