that is hardly the point", stating that "the VIC will provide very stiff competition to the TRS-80 Color Computer" and "is a much more valuable computer literacy tool than" other products like the TRS-80 Pocket Computer. Compute! concluded "VIC will create its own market, and it will be a big one". While also noting the small screen size and RAM, BYTE stated that the VIC 20 was "unexcelled as low-cost, consumer-oriented computer. Even with some of its limitations...it makes an impressive showing against...the Apple II, the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Atari 800". The magazine praised the price ("Looking at a picture...might cause you to think would be a fair price...But it does not cost —the VIC 20 retails for "), keyboard ("the equal of any personal-computer keyboard in both appearance and performance. This is a remarkable achievement, almost unbelievable considering the price of the entire unit"), graphics, documentation, and ease of software development with the KERNAL. See also VICE, a VIC-20 emulator List of VIC-20 games Footnotes References Further reading BYTE in 1983 published a series of technical articles about the VIC-20: External links OLD-COMPUTERS.COM online-museum VIC-20 page VIC-20 Programmers reference guide and more 6502-based home computers Computer-related introductions in 1980