History of the TI Z80 community

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1996

June
21: Birth of Ticalc.org

1997

  • Mel Tsai creates and launches the Expander SF. The external device allows 512Kb, or 1024Kb of program storage with TI-85 calculators. Using some of the first commercially available flash memory, it allows calculator users to carry all of their programs with them at all times. It is the first mass storage device for the TI graphing calculator line.
  • TI-Files founded by Alex Highsmith and Harper Maddox.

1998

  • Dimension-TI founded by Adam Berlinsky-Schine
  • TI Calculator Programmers Alliance (TCPA) founded by Dan Englender and Jason Kovacs
  • Assembly Coders Zenith founded by Matt Johnson
  • Hays Games founded
  • SiCoDe founded by (brothers) Matt and David Hall

1999

2000

May
01: Detached Solutions Formed
25: MirageOS v1.0 Released (DS)
  • BASIC Guru Online (BGO) founded by Ben Ilegbodu
  • Cemetech founded at original Homestead location

2001

April
TIFT Formed
June
05: MaxCoderz Formed
February 22
SiCoDe is officially disbanded

2002

2003

  • United-TI (UTI) founded with the merger of four different TI sites: Cirrus (David), CalcBasic (JBirk), Outer Limit Software (Bryan), and Prokul Interactive (Glenn). The Calc Site (Alan) was going to merge with them as well, but Alan decided to not join the merger for personal reasons.

2004

December
29: Revolution Software Formed

2005

December
12: The Coders Of Tomorrow online programming team formed, part of the Omnimaga website.

2006

September
01: TI-Basic Developer (TI|BD) founded by burr

2009

July
Benjamin Moody factors the signing key used to sign operating systems on the TI-83+.
August
TI sends out DMCA notices to everyone who spreads the Good News.
September
The EFF is alerted about the DMCA notices by Dan Goodin from The Register and the EFF agrees to take on the case.