Talk:APF Imagination Machine

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Weird claims
"The Imagination Machine has the distinction of being one of the first, if not the first, affordable home PCs to connect to the television"

With the expansion kit, which makes it a PC, it cost $700. That was much more than the price of a Atari 400, which was also an affordable home PC that connected to a TV. This claim seems bogus.

And what's this about "most expendable"? The preferable list is tiny. Every machine of the era had more than that.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:12, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Claims removed
I did some digging and as a result I have removed the claims noted above. At the time the APF was released, the TI-99/4 and Atari 400 were both for sale. These were roughly the same price point or cheaper, and had built-in RF output. Additionally, the "unprecedented" peripheral list is far shorter than either the Atari or the TI machine. Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:42, 8 August 2018 (UTC)