First consumer machine with
bit-mapped-only video (no text mode)?
Not the first one with bit-mapped video.
Perhaps the first one to NOT give you a test mode. THAT is an invention?
The PERQ (1979) of course had only a bitmappaed mode, but they added the
'Rasterop machine' (basically a systm to put bitmapped images -- like
chraxcters -- at arbitrary points on the screen) so that text would eb at
least as fast as a 9600baurd terminal (it was in fact at least an oder of
magnitude faster).
FWIW, the UK Whitechapel MG1 had a bit-serial equivalent ot the rasterop
machine which was appaeently slower than doing bit operation on the main
CPU...
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NOT necessarily Apple, and all such impediments can be
circumvented:
Which is the first personal computer to use "tamper-proof" fasteners to
block user access to the insides? (extra points for having used Velcro on
a previous model!)
Tht does sound like Apple, assuming you think the plastic stuf fasteners
on the Apple ][ are like Velcro and think that Torx screws are somehow
difficult to remove...
Which is the first personal computer to not let you
have, nor add, a
floppy drive?
HP9830? It had digital cassettes and an optional hard drive (something
like an RK05), but AFAIK no floppy drive ever existed for it.
Which is the first personal computer to attempt to
eliminate third party
floppy drives?
Which is the first personal computer with a CRT, but not having a video
output?
Manchester Mk 1? It had CRTs used for the main store, not video display :-)
-tony