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May 18, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Time for a pulp countdown now, and today it's my top 10 forgotten home microcomputers!

Let me just plug this tape recorder in and tune the TV set...
At #10: the 1982 Sharp X1! Possibly the most '80s looking 1980s computer ever created, it sold very well in Brazil. MSX really was the future once...
At #9: the 1982 Oric! rashed games more times than it loaded them and felt like typing on bubble wrap. Blakes 7 fans bought it because it sounded a bit like Orac...
At #8: the 1981 Texas Instruments TI-99/4A! This was basically bludgeoned to death by the VIC-20 in a ruthless price-cutting war, as payback for TI cornering the pocket calculator market in the 1970s and nearly bankrupting Commodore...
At #7: the 1978 Philips Videopac G7000! I know, I know, but it said it was a 'computer' on the box. Look, it's in big letters and everything...
At #6: the 1979 Luxor ABC 80! The most powerful computer ever made in Sweden...
At #5: the 1982 EG2000 Colour Genie. Dads with mullets thought it was like a Tandy CoCo. Kids knew it wasn't...
At #4: the 1983 Spectravideo SV-318 and SV-328. Said it was an MSX but wasn't really. Had a built-in joystick in the worst place ever for left handers. No software. No sales support. Even Roger Moore couldn't shift 'em...
At #3: the 1984 Oric Atmos! This was huge in Bulgaria I understand. Which is nice...
At #2: the 1984 Sinclair QL! "There's no comparison chart" because nobody had one delivered on time. Launched the term 'stringy floppies', which were as bad as they sounded...
And at #1: the 1983 Mattel Aquarius. From the makers of Barbie came the 'future proof' home computer, packing all the technology the mid-1970s had left behind.

It lasted 4 months before production ceased...
More tech from the World Of Tomorrow* anither time...

(*hours of business may vary)

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Star Trek pinball (Bally, 1979). Image
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