{"id":139,"date":"2006-06-05T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2021-05-28T18:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T23:33:38","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-bill-cosby-fondles-a-ti-994a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/139\/retro-scan-of-the-week-bill-cosby-fondles-a-ti-994a","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Bill Cosby and the TI-99\/4A"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ti_cosby_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ti_cosby_small.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Cosby TI-99\/4A Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Upon looking at this ad, I find myself wondering if Bill Cosby ever actually used a TI-99\/4A.  No, wait&#8230;has he ever <em>owned<\/em> one?  Was it a gift from Texas Instruments for being their spokesman?  Does he still have one sitting in his closet\/attic\/basement somewhere, or did he yard sale it in &#8217;89?  Did he ever turn it on?  <em>Did Bill Cosby ever write a BASIC program?<\/em>  Did he ever balance his budget with <em>Household Budget Management<\/em>?  Did he play <em>Munch Man<\/em> or <em>Alpiner<\/em>?  Did he curse the TI-99\/4A joysticks for being terrible and throw them against the wall when he lost?<\/p>\n<p>If you prick Bill Cosby, does he not bleed JELLO?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image in a blog post, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon looking at this ad, I find myself wondering if Bill Cosby ever actually used a TI-99\/4A. No, wait&#8230;has he ever owned one? Was it a gift from Texas Instruments for being their spokesman? Does he still have one sitting in his closet\/attic\/basement somewhere, or did he yard sale it in &#8217;89? Did he ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,24,26],"tags":[564,561,562,565,60,559,563],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","tag-alpiner","tag-bill-cosby","tag-celebrities","tag-munch-man","tag-retro-scan","tag-texas-instruments","tag-ti-994a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}