Peripheral Expansion

Some articles on peripherals, expansion:

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A - Features
... Available peripherals included a 5ΒΌ" floppy disk drive and controller, an RS-232 card comprising two serial ports and one parallel port, a P-code card for Pascal support, a thermal printer, an acoustic ... The TI-99/4A's original expansion concept was that peripherals would be connected serially to the console and each other, in a 'daisy-chain' fashion ... The 'sidecar' expansion units could be connected together in a continuing chain, but could rapidly occupy an entire desktop and cause crashes and lockups due to the large numbers of connectors on the ...

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