By the way, another contender for the "crown" includes IBM's 5100 from 1975, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100, which was priced way too high for consumer adoption (and was not targeted to them anyway), though was amazing technology and a form factor that HP would replicate with their HP-85 series. The IBM 5100 offered both BASIC and APL language options. Interestingly, APL was available as the ONLY language for the aforementioned VideoBrain, and is a very difficult cartridge to find today (in fact, I'm still looking).
Other contenders include the AIM-65, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-65, but again, you're talking a very limited display and a computer that was really meant as a type of microprocessor trainer, rather than a general purpose computing device.
*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
By the way, another contender for the "crown" includes IBM's 5100 from 1975, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100, which was priced way too high for consumer adoption (and was not targeted to them anyway), though was amazing technology and a form factor that HP would replicate with their HP-85 series. The IBM 5100 offered both BASIC and APL language options. Interestingly, APL was available as the ONLY language for the aforementioned VideoBrain, and is a very difficult cartridge to find today (in fact, I'm still looking).
Other contenders include the AIM-65, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-65, but again, you're talking a very limited display and a computer that was really meant as a type of microprocessor trainer, rather than a general purpose computing device.
***************************
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.