> On Jul 20, 2017, at 1:52 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The earliest documents I've found for the GIGI are late 1980, but most are
> from around mid 1981.
>
> Either way, mass storage sure is a sore point, but there were other examples
> of micros around that era with a built-in BASIC and no mass storage (or mass
> storage introduced at a later point in time), so it wasn't totally unique.
>
> I would definitely classify it as a micro either way.
By that definition, the PLATO Programmable Terminal, of around 1975, is a micro
also. It too has a graphics display, support for downloaded user programs (in
TUTOR not BASIC), and no local storage.
paul
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