The Tomy Tutor and the state of 1983 home computers

The Tomy Tutor was my first computer, in late 1983. I was seven and we got it at Federated . I've acquired several more since then, but this is the actual one I used and it still works perfectly. Using a design modeled on the doomed Texas Instruments 99/8, one of several unreleased successors to the TI 99/4A, the Tomy Tutor and its overseas siblings, the Japanese Pyuuta ( ) series, promised an…