Stan Veit, owner of the Computer Mart of New York, described the reaction when he displayed the changing patterns of Kaleidoscope on a color television in his store window at the corner of 5th Avenue and 32nd Street in New York City in early 1976.
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When Federico Faggin's new company introduced the Z80, Cromemco branched out into their own line of Z80-based S-100 compatible computers almost immediately.
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The cover of the June 1976 issue of Byte Magazine shows a Dazzler image from Conway's Game of Life, and credits Ed Hall as author of the Life software for the Dazzler.
The first color graphics interface for microcomputers,developed by Cromemco and called the Dazzler, was introduced in 1976 with a demonstration program called "Kaleidoscope" written by Dr. Wang.
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