APF Electronics Inc. 1968 Hat

APF Electronics Inc. was a publicly traded company based in New York City that was dedicated to consumer electronics. The company was founded in 1968 to import stereos from Japan and the company name came from the initials of the brothers who founded ir, Al & Phil Friedman. APF moved into calculators after realizing there were high margins and low competition in this area. By the mid-70s, APF had began developing home gaming consoles, with their first release being the APF TV Fun in 1976, followed by the APF-MP1000 in 1978. That same year, the APF PeCos One computer system came out, following by the APF Imagination Machine expansion module in 1979. Fast forward to 1983 which saw the APF Imagination Machine II come to life.