iTV Asynchronous Processor from 1995

I invested in iTV 29 years ago and served on the board. I still have their chip here at my desk. It’s a 5-bit asynchronous processor (no clock) running Forth and a custom OS.

iTV went funky in the design for cost reasons. They built a web access appliance that would connect to a TV for a total cost of $19 (including power supply, keyboard, everything). It used so little power that it would keep running for a couple minutes with the AC plug pulled. They also did all NTSC and PAL TV signal generation and modem functionality on chip. This was before WebTV launched, but WebTV beat them by being more industry standards compliant.