Datapoint 2200 Computer owned by Jack Rubin. The production version of Datapoint 2200, shown here, had two cassette tape drives in the top, typically one for the software and one for the data.
Original photo edited by Michael Holley.
Datapoint 2200 Computer owned by Jack Rubin.
Original photo extensively editied by Michael Holley, May 2007
The Datapoint 2200, released by the San Antonio-based Computer Terminal Corp. in late 1970, was the first practical, fully-functional, mass-produced single-person computer to reach the market—to the dismay of many modern commentators, who prefer to mislabel it a “smart terminal” rather than accept that fact that it was actually a computer. Not only was it really a computer, but the machine you are reading this with probably uses a derivation of its circuitry.