I can't add much of anything to the conversation
except for some opinions.
First to go into design?
First announced?
First demo'd?
First prototyped?
First to enter production?
First "released"? (what does THAT mean?)
First that could be ordered?
First delivered?
First that could be purchased for cash in a store?
My vote goes to the unit that was the first
*commercially* available one, regardless if it could
be store bought or ordered. For entirely practical (?)
purposes, this would mean the first that was mass
produced. We could always allude to some weirded out
prototype or whatever, and in fact such would earn the
honor of being the very first -?.
Announcements are irrelevant. The SX-64 was announced
a year before it was released, yet later that same
year ('83) the TI Portable Professional was released
(available) and was *arguably* the first color
portable computer. For such a position, prototypes and
other criteria would be irrelevant. Not a *very first
-*, but a *first -*, uh, if you get my drift. First
mass produced, first available.
Like I said, more or less opinions. But fine ones
you'd have to agree ;)
Availablity is paramount in this discussion though,
regardless of the source.
The TRS-80 Model 2000 was the late-st great TRS-80 if
any of you hosers weren't aware.
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