Back in presumably the early 1960s, [David]’s grandfather bought a console stereo featuring a record ... Plentiful I/O on this 1960s vintage piece of Magnavox audio equipment.

It also had the major features you expect from a video game. However, there was an earlier console available. the Magnavox Odyssey. This system was black and white, had two wired controllers ...

That’s Ultravox. Magnavox is a US tech company most famous for tellies that was swallowed up by Phillips in 1974. It also created Odyssey, the first home video game console – so pioneering that the ...