Many of the
1950's systems were what we'd consider to be strange.
Some day, I'd
love to a build a machine that executes befunge in
hardware. I don't know whether or not it's been done before.
I don't either, but I too would like it. If you resize the playfield
to, say, 64x64 (instead of 80x24), I might even have the wherewithal
(expertise and parts) to build one.
der Mouse