{"id":1135,"date":"2015-07-13T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2015-07-13T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:57:57","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-apf-imagination-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1135\/retro-scan-of-the-week-apf-imagination-machine","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> APF Imagination Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apf_imagination_machine_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apf_imagination_machine_small.jpg\" alt=\"APF Imagination Machine APF-M1000 computer advertisement - 1980\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m ready to take such a big step, APF.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I once did a slideshow of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/291559\/10-classic-game-console-mods\" target=\"_blank\">game console-to-computer upgrades<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nausicaa.net\/~lgreenf\/apfpage.htm\" target=\"_blank\">APF Imagination Machine<\/a> figured prominently in the list.  That&#8217;s because it was a combination of the APF-M1000 home video game system and the &#8220;IM-1,&#8221; which was a large keyboard\/speaker dock with a built-in cassette tape player (for program storage and retrieval).<\/p>\n<p>What an odd machine.  To my knowledge, the M1000 was the only video game system based on the Motorola 6800 CPU, which is one of the grand-daddies in the microprocessor world (first released in 1974).<\/p>\n<p>While neither the console nor the computer fared well commercially, this distinctive advertisement leaves a positive impression.  It was brilliantly playful and colorful for a computer ad of the time (1979; this particular scan of the ad comes from 1980).<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From BYTE Magazine, July 1980, p.43]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Best console add-on of all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m ready to take such a big step, APF. I once did a slideshow of game console-to-computer upgrades, and the APF Imagination Machine figured prominently in the list. That&#8217;s because it was a combination of the APF-M1000 home video game system and the &#8220;IM-1,&#8221; which was a large keyboard\/speaker dock with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,27,26,9,10],"tags":[1135,150,1131,1133,113,1134,1132,60],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-1135","tag-advertisement","tag-apf","tag-apf-m1000","tag-byte","tag-console-expansions","tag-imagination-machine","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}