Easter weekend 1984.
It cost about NZ $300 and plugged into the TV, had a tape drive for saving and loading programs and I programmed games and stuff on it in BASIC (or machine code) - usually typing them in from magazines. I started programming a monopoly game (another Easter weekend tradition), but there were not enough pixels on the screen to show the board. The rubber keys were a pain.
Specifications:
CPU: Z80 maximum address range of 65535 bytes
First 32K occupied by the Basic ROM or Games ROM
Video Chip: Texas Instruments TMM9929A (4 Color Modes, 32 Sprites, 16K RAM)
Sound Chip: SN76487AN(3 sound channels & a noise generator)
System Ram: 2Kbyte 8212
I built my own gadget for it - I soldered together a keypad joystick.
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