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4 unusual facts about Cromemco Dazzler


Cromemco Dazzler

Stan Veit, owner of the Computer Mart of New York, described the reaction when he displayed the changing patterns of Kaleidoscope on a color television in his store window at the corner of 5th Avenue and 32nd Street in New York City in early 1976.

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When Federico Faggin's new company introduced the Z80, Cromemco branched out into their own line of Z80-based S-100 compatible computers almost immediately.

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The cover of the June 1976 issue of Byte Magazine shows a Dazzler image from Conway's Game of Life, and credits Ed Hall as author of the Life software for the Dazzler.

Li-Chen Wang

The first color graphics interface for microcomputers,developed by Cromemco and called the Dazzler, was introduced in 1976 with a demonstration program called "Kaleidoscope" written by Dr. Wang.



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