Comment by pm215

I'm pretty sure my Dad got ours because they were being sold off very cheaply after TI pulled out of the home computer market. Like you I ended up learning BASIC on it because as an abandoned system all we had was a few cartridge games, some user-group programs, and typed in BASIC. It worked out pretty well really. (Later we got an Amstrad CPC 6128, which had a much bigger commercial games market.)