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Some info marked on the back.
Model MMII, S/N 600559. 220V. Amps 3/4 4/81(this might be the date).
965 W Maude Ave Sunnyvale Ca 94086 Made in U.S.A.

I have some photos of the ACT 800.

The ACT 800 was manufactured by a company call Computhink who also made the disk drive it was called the minimax in America

I was given one of these to use when I worked for Petsoft around 1981 it came with twin 5-1/2 inch floppies that cost around £1000 the disk filing system was terrible you could not have read and write access on the same file. I was asked to convert PET games to it but the screen was not bit mapped like the PET to write to the screen you had to poke the X Y co-ordinates into 2 memory locations with the poke value of what you wanted on the screen in a third memory location. I gave up converting games on it. It was not a nice machine.