The 6-foot, 6-inch inventor was a "gentle giant" who did little to toot his own horn, his friend Pat Weber said Tuesday. "He was always a very humble man," said Mr. Weber, former vice chairman of TI.

Sure, we see lots of weather stations, but this one is controlled by a TI 99/4A computer. This home computer from the 1980s was actually ahead of its time with a 16-bit processor.

[Eric Gregori] had an OWI535 toy robotic arm. Although cheap (coming it at around $30) the arm is only set up to be used via a wired control box. [Eric] knew he could do better by adding computer c… ...

"A super computer device for those of us with a collection of now old cassette tapes where we can now listen to them on our computer and make top quality recording for CD, MP3 or any other recording ...