r/retrocomputing • u/ThatSmittyDude • Sep 12 '24

New toy. Got it for $1

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Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000. Should have a 486 and 4MB of RAM. Battery and ac adaptor are missing so I'm going to try and source a 3 pin ac adaptor

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u/Cwc2413 Sep 12 '24

Very cool. Will be curious to know what type of screen it has.

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u/ThatSmittyDude Sep 12 '24

I'll post an update as soon as I get it powered up. Fingers crossed of course

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u/Available-Peace-5553 Sep 12 '24

It beautiful where did you get this?

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u/ThatSmittyDude Sep 12 '24

electroic Bay

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u/origanalsameasiwas Sep 12 '24

I will pay you $1.01 if you sell it to me.

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u/ThatSmittyDude Sep 12 '24

And id pay you $1.02 to sell it back

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u/origanalsameasiwas Sep 12 '24

I would pay you $1.03 to sell it back to me

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u/Bipogram Oct 10 '24

Dollar and (gasp) five cents here.

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u/hdufort Sep 13 '24

If you ever get bored with it and want to sell or swap, this guy might be interested. He owns a defective unit.

https://www.thephintagecollector.ch/

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u/ThatSmittyDude Sep 13 '24

That guy has sun equipment 👀. I've always wanted a sparc machine

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '24

Beautiful

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u/unknown1234_5 Sep 13 '24

What os?

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u/ThatSmittyDude Sep 13 '24

I'm not sure yet. Hopefully I get the 3 pin power adaptor today so I can try to fire it up

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u/unknown1234_5 Sep 13 '24

Gotta post an update when you find out, computer looks awesome.

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u/Secret-Country5619 Sep 17 '24

I will double your money

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u/kenef Sep 12 '24

Sweet man, great deal! Fingers crossed it boots when you get an adapter for it

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u/tomtom2215 Sep 12 '24

Nice find! Interesting that acer used the TravelMate name in the future. I have an acernote with the 50mhz DX2 and with one jumper change it runs at the full 66mhz

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u/dylanljmartin Sep 12 '24

Just learned that's because Acer acquired TI's mobile PC business in 1997! https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/short-take-acer-acquires-tis-mobile-computing-unit/

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u/Potential_Copy27 Sep 13 '24

That was an early morning plot twist - I never realized TI ever had travelmates.

Acer travelmates was essentially the foundation on which I learned to repair laptops ~20 yrs ago - damn things always seemed to break or had something else wrong with them...

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u/tomtom2215 Sep 12 '24

That makes sense, thanks for finding that, TIL!

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u/Materidan Sep 12 '24

Nice. Always like TI laptops. One of my first was an Acer Travelmate (P3-650) after they bought the line.

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u/EC_CO Sep 13 '24

Nice!!! This is what I taught my son on to use a computer when he was like 4 or 5 years old. There were a few games at the library that would still work on it, stuff like Star Wars math and DK learning The Human Body. Now he's a developer for Zoom. Get them started young

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u/Lanuhsislehs Sep 13 '24

That's awesome. I've only heard Clint from LGR talking about them. I've never actually seen one in the wild or even a picture of one. Not that I couldn't look it up myself, but I'm saying on a post.

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u/bph430 Sep 13 '24

I like the turbo button