Parco Electronics
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Parco Electronics were based in Devonshire (England). They sold some of the remaining bankrupt stock from Texas Instruments computer division in the early 1980's (1982~1984 era). The Ti99/4a was the only computer that Parco catered for and because of this, this is why the company has long since disappeared. The TI-99/4A is a redesign of the TI-99/4 computer system, which was discontinued. ... At the end of 1982.
They were a mail order company and in the early eighties, and were one of the only sources of Ti99 hardware and software for the UK and they became the only supplier as local stores had long since sold off there excess stock after Texas instruments announced there withdrawal from the computer market.
They advertised purely by sending A4 scanned adverts to existing customers and it was one of these poorly scanned (in blue ink) documents that came included in a second hand Ti99 in 1983 that lead me to buying from the company over the next year or so, until I moved on the more popular Sinclair spectrum.
Stock sold included:
- The Ti99/4a computer
- The disk drive system
- mini memory
- modules (games and applications)
- cassette games and applications
- joysticks
- speech units
External Links to TI99 information / history / emulation (windows / Unix)
