Eric Smith spacewar at
gmail.com
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I was pretty sure that
the first UTek machine
was the 4404 "Artificial Intelligence Workstation", introduced in 1974.
The 4404 was MC68010 based
There's also the TI Explorer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_Explorer
a LISP machine (custom CPU); not sure of the exact date, but it was around then.
Noel