Editing Tangerine Computer Systems (section)

==Early years: Microtan 65==
{{see also|Tangerine Microtan 65}}<!-- "Seealso" not "main" since this article is the main one for company details and history -->
[[File:Tangerine Microtan 65 In System Rack (white bg).jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Microtan 65 in the full System Rack enclosure and with the [[ASCII]] keyboard]]

Tangerine produced one of the first [[MOS Technology 6502|6502]]-based kit computers, the '''[[Tangerine MICROTAN 65|Microtan 65]]'''. It had a 3[[Rack unit|U]] form factor, a small amount of [[Random access memory|memory]] (RAM), a video character generator and [[RF Modulator|UHF modulator]] for use with a [[Television|TV]] set, and a simple latch for entering [[hexadecimal|hex]] data from a keypad, and the computer was designed to be expandable. The manual came with a one-[[kilobyte]] listing of [[Conway's Game of Life]]. An optional expansion board could be built with a [[UART]], more memory and [[BASIC programming language|BASIC]] [[Read-only memory|ROM]]s. Additional expansion boards became available later, offering more RAM, dedicated [[Series and parallel circuits#Series circuits|serial]] and [[Series and parallel circuits#Parallel circuits|parallel]] [[Input/output|I/O]] boards, etc.

After the [[Tangerine Microtan 65|Microtan 65]], Tangerine planned to build a desktop machine and managed to get as far as selling the design for the '''Microtan 2''', also known as '''Tangerine Tiger''', to [[HH Electronics]], better known for building amplifiers. They released it as the HH Tiger, but it was not a commercial success.<ref name="historic_comp">{{ cite web | url=https://historictech.com/product/hh-tiger-personal-computer-from-c-1983/ | title=HH Tiger Personal Computer from c. 1983 | website=Historic Tech | access-date=23 April 2021 }}</ref>