Video game machine/Computer With 6800 Processor

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Sun Jul 13 19:19:32 1997

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Matt Pritchard wrote:

> > Does anyone remember this machine :
> >
> > it's a video game console (like the atari VCS) but which could sit on
> > a box which then converts it to a home computer.
> >
> > The machine ran on a 6800 and had built-in basic.
> >
> > It came out approx at the same time as the Atari 400/800 series
> > (78-79?)
> >
> > I remember seeing an ad on it and the heading of the ad was
> > "imagination machine".
> >
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > Ahh, the "APF Imagination Machine" I believe. Somewhere I have a
> > single cartridge for it.
> >
> > -Mp
>

I heard about it from Popular Electronics magazine in early 1981 or so.
The video chip was the same as that used in the TRS80 Color Computer,
if I remember correctly . . .
Received on Sun Jul 13 1997 - 19:19:32 BST