Death of a Computer: How the Texas Instruments home computer, the 99/4A, died a horrible death

From the 1984 article:

Amid great fanfare, the 99/4A home computer was born into the aristocratic Texas Instruments family. The year was 1981. The precocious infant grew quickly. But in 1983 it met an untimely end, largely because of the unreasonable demands of its pushy parent.