Question: Which home computer was sold first, the Matra Alice or the IBM PS/1?

Context articles: Matra Alice
Video Graphics Array
IBM PC Series
IBM 386SLC
Interact Home Computer
IBM PS/ValuePoint
IBM PS/1
PS/2 port
IBM Aptiva
AT (form factor)

The Matra & Hachette Ordinateur Alice was a home computer sold in France beginning in 1983.
 It was a clone of the TRS-80 MC-10, produced through a collaboration between Matra and Hachette in France and Tandy Corporation in the United States.
Video Graphics Array (VGA) is the display hardware first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987.
 Through widespread adoption, the term has also come to mean either an analog computer display standard, the 15-pin D-subminiature VGA connector, or the 640×480 resolution characteristic of the VGA hardware.
The IBM PC Series personal computer was the follow-on to the IBM PS/ValuePoint and IBM Personal System/2.
 Announced in October 1994 and withdrawn in October 2000, it was replaced by the IBM NetVista, apart from the Pentium Pro-based PC360 and PC365, which were replaced by the IBM IntelliStation.
The 386SLC was an Intel-licensed version of the 386SX (32-bit internal, 16-bit external, 24-bit memory addressing), developed and manufactured by IBM in 1991.
 It included power-management capabilities and an 8KB internal CPU cache, which enabled it to yield comparable performance to 386DX processors of the same clock speed, which were considerably more expensive.
 Known inside IBM as ""Super Little Chip"" for its initials, it was used in IBM PS/2 35, 40 56 Series and in the IBM PS/ValuePoint 325T, but never gained much market share.
 This was mainly due to an agreement with Intel, in which IBM was not allowed to sell their CPUs if they were not part of a system or upgrade board.
 It was also marketed as an optional upgrade for 8086-equipped IBM PS/2 25 Series computers.
The Interact Home Computer is a rare, very early (1978) American home computer made by "Interact Electronics Inc" of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 It sold under the name "interact Model One home computer".
 The original Ineract Model One computer was designed by Rick Barnich and Tim Anderson at 204 E. Washington in Ann Arbor, then moving to an office in Georgetown Mall on Packard St in Ann Arbor.
 Interact Electronics Inc was a privately held company that was funded by Hongiman, Miller, Swartz and Cohn...a lawyer firm out of Detroit.
 The President/Founder of Interact Electronics Inc was Ken Lochner, who was one of the original developers of the BASIC language based out of Dartmouth college.
 Ken had started Interact Electronics Inc after a successful startup known as ADP Cyphernetics, the original computer time share company in Ann Arbor, now known as ADP Network Services.
 Only a few thousand Interacts were sold before the company went bankrupt.
 Most were sold by the liquidator "Protecto Enterprizes" of Barrington, Illinois through mail order sales.
 The Interact Model One Home Computer debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago in June 1978 at a price of $499.
 The majority of sales were thru Mail Order houses and you could buy it off the shelf at Highland Appliance in the Detroit, MI area and Newman Computer Exchange in Ann Arbor.
 Probably the most successful application available for the Interace was a program called "Message Center".
 With it, a store could type in whatever message they wanted to appear scrolling on a TV screen...like Advertisements, or welcoming messages to guests in an office.
 Although it was mostly a Game machine at the time with games such as Showdown, BlackJack and Chess, there was also BASIC programming where users could create their own programs in the BASIC computer language.
 Customers began hooking up Interact to control everything from lights in their house, to a Chevrolet Corvette!
The IBM PS/ValuePoint (or just ValuePoint) personal computer was IBM's answer to the PC clone market, where the IBM PS/2 could not compete due to price and proprietary interfaces.
 Announced in October 1992 and withdrawn in July 1995, it was replaced by the IBM PC Series 300.
The IBM PS/1 is a brand for a line of personal computers that marked IBM's return to the home market in 1990, five years after the IBM PCjr.
 It was replaced by the IBM Aptiva in September 1994.
The PS/2 port is a 6-pin mini-DIN connector used for connecting some keyboards and mice to a PC compatible computer system.
 Its name comes from the IBM Personal System/2 series of personal computers, with which it was introduced in 1987.
 The PS/2 mouse connector generally replaced the older DE-9 RS-232 "serial mouse" connector, while the PS/2 keyboard connector replaced the larger 5-pin/180° DIN connector used in the IBM PC/AT design.
 The PS/2 designs on keyboard and mouse interfaces are electrically similar and employ the same communication protocol.
 However, unlike the otherwise similar Apple Desktop Bus connector used by Apple, a given system's keyboard and mouse port may not be interchangeable since the two devices use a different set of commands.
The IBM Aptiva personal computer was introduced in September 1994 as the replacement for the IBM PS/1.
 The first Aptiva models were based on the Intel 80486 CPU with later models using the Pentium and AMD CPUs.
 All systems were developed in-house except for the later E series which was developed by Acer.
 The last system was withdrawn in May 2001 without direct replacement when IBM decided to exit the home market.
 Customers were directed to the IBM NetVista, which was more targeted to business desktops.
 Most Aptiva models included a modem and a standby/hibernation feature called "Rapid Resume".
In the area of IBM compatible personal computers, the AT form factor referred to the dimensions and layout (form factor) of the motherboard for the IBM AT.
 Like the IBM PC and IBM XT models before it, many third-party manufacturers produced motherboards compatible with the IBM AT form factor, allowing end users to upgrade their computers for faster processors.
 The IBM AT became a widely copied design in the booming home computer market of the 1980s.
 IBM clones made at the time began using AT compatible designs, contributing to its popularity.
 In the 1990s many computers still used AT and its variants.
 Since 1997, the AT form factor has been largely supplanted by ATX.