[8] It provided many pioneering features such as high resolution color graphics, a maths co-processor, and a pre-compiling BASIC interpreter.

[9] The computer was initially designed by DAI for the UK subsidiary of Texas Instruments for use with the PAL televisions used in Britain.

[10] Texas Instruments US did not want to build a PAL version of their TI-99/4A home computer, although they subsequently authorized one after they saw the DAI.

[14] After DAI filed for bankruptcy in 1982, InData (a Prodata spin-off)[3] continued producing and selling the machine up to 1984.

The DAI could display text and high resolution color pictures and contained a memory controller that enabled it to use up to 48 KB of DRAM.

To enhance the mathematical abilities of BASIC, (and assembler programs) an AMD AM9511 floating point co-processor (compatible with the Intel 8231) could be added.

The original decision to use the 8080A 1 MHz processor (already in use by DAI on other products) was forced by the timescale, which itself was dictated by a desire to show the machine to a TI USA board meeting.

However, the slow CPU dictated a huge amount of work on the pre-compiling BASIC and the option for hardware-assisted floating point which might not have been required if the newer Z80 had been chosen.

The decision to design the PC to use any old off-the shelf cassette tape recorder made the load and save speeds slow.

Data Applications International (DAI) was a company from the end of the 1970s to the early 1980s based at Dreve de Renards 6, Brussels that was specialized in creating "Real World Cards", computer peripheral cards based on their own proprietary DCEbus, which in essence consists of three groups of eight I/O lines (coming from an Intel 8255) .