There was a 4004 based computer developed in 1972 that was released before the Micral called the Comstar 4. It's not very well known but it was written about in the ACM and the Computer History Museum has a copy of their sales manual
ACM article https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1499949.1499959 Manual at Computer History Museum https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102686568 On Fri, May 24, 2024, 5:45 AM Christian Corti via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > And looking beyond the Great American barrier ;-) there was the MICRAL N, > much earlier than the MITS, and considered as the first complete > commercial microprocessor based computer, i.e. not a kit and available to > normal customers. > > Christian > >