Hi Folks -- Stephen Cass here, one of the editors at IEEE Spectrum. Rather than replying to a bunch of comments individually, let me say here that the folks poi

Hi Folks -- Stephen Cass here, one of the editors at IEEE Spectrum. Rather than replying to a bunch of comments individually, let me say here that the folks pointing out it wasn't the first ever 16-bit computer are absolutely correct. As the article quickly makes clear, it was the first 16-bit HOME computer: we should have been more precise in the headline, and that's our bad. Speaking personally, I really loved having this article in Spectrum and reading everyone's comments, as I too was a 99/4A O.G. from the 1980s, (the machine was my first computer before I moved onto the BBC Micro). And word, yes, the system was squirrely, but I did at least learn to count in hex in my head trying to turn user-defined characters into poor-man's sprites in TI-BASIC