If you ever had a Texas Instruments TI/99 computer, what did you use it for?

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I once had a Texas Instruments TI99/4A computer, which one of the first home computers. It only had about 16K or RAM, and for a monitor you hooked it up to a TV. Unless you spent a lot extra for a peripheral box you had do like me and store data on a cassette recorder. Even after Texas Instruments stopped making the computer other companies developed cartridges you could plug into it for doing a variety of things. One cartridge I bought for it allowed me to use a printer with a 2 pin printhead. Another cartridge let me do basic word processing. It wasn't fancy, but it was much better than using a typewriter. The TI99/4A also had a cartridge that let me program in its version of BASIC. I used that to write a simple artwork program that could create colorful "quilts" on the TV screen. Eventually I bought another home computer, but for a few years it was fun to use the Texas Instruments TI99/4A computer.