it. RCA sold a $39 version of Tiny BASIC on an expansion board. A VIP II version was designed, bundling the VIP with several expansion cards and selling it in fully assembled form. Marketing materials from 1979 refer to a 1980 release, but this never occurred. Several years later the VIP II was equipped with a ROM containing a terminal program and sold as a portable terminal device under the name RCA VP 3000. Notes References Notes The December 1978 BYTE magazine featured an article on CHIP-8 ("An Easy Programming System") as well as an advertisement for the VIP system. The May 1977 Dr. Dobb's Journal reprinted an article by Joseph Weisbecker ("A Practical, Low-cost, Home/School Microprocessor System") describing the design philosophies and economies that went into designing the VIP—which was at the time called FRED ("Flexible Recreational and Educational Device"). That article originally appeared in the August 1974 IEEE "Computer" magazine. External links old-computers.com article: Cosmac VIP Recordings of Cosmac VIP playing music RCA COSMAC Yahoo! Group Revival Studios Developer of new Chip-8/SuperChip/MegaChip8 games. Emma 02 including Cosmac VIP Emulator Early microcomputers RCA brands