13 Jul
1997
13 Jul
'97
12:17 p.m.
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, COMMPUTERSEUM/Kevin Stumpf wrote:
>Sam Ismail wrote:
> One of the
>> systems he mentioned he had was a Video Brain. Apparently this is a
>> video game system. I *think* I vaguely remember hearing about this
>> system. At any rate I'm curious about it and was wondering if anybody
>> knew what it was as we both had too much tequila for him to describe and
>> for me to comprehend it.
>Video brain was made by a firm called UMTECH, used a microprocessor
>called F8 and had 1 to 4K of RAM memory. It was possible to store the
>data on cassette and, you are right there, it had many plug-in
>cartridges with games on them. It was sold mainly through departments
>stores and specialty electronic stores (at least that is what "A
>Collector's guide to personal computers" book has to say about it)
>
I remeber reading a little blurb about Video Brain in the April 1981
Creative Computing. Essentially, by that time the company had gone out
of business. . .