Your Home Computer As A Terminal

Abstract

Although your TI-99/4A is a powerful tool by itself, a vast new world opens for you when you use it as a terminal to interact with larger computers or computer networks. Electronic information utilities such as The Source and CompuServe maintain huge data storehouses. Your humble computer can give you access to hundreds of specialized databases on topics from agriculture to zoology. Many computer networks offer services such as electronic mail, financial reporting, travel reservations and scheduling and bulletin boards. If you can get an account with a university computer, you’ll have access to new programming languages, memory space, and even printing facilities. The possibilities for enhancing the way you learn and do business are limited virtually only by your imagination.