Exidy Sorcerer was first produced in 1978 and used programs on 16KB ROM packs encased in 8-track tape cartridges. It was shipped with Microsoft MBASIC and a development tools assembler/editor ROM pack. A word processor ROM pack was also available.

Exidy initially provided an expansion chassis that would accept up to 6 S-100 cards, and a Micropolis dual- disk quad-density 16-sector hard sector floppy disk drive. These disks would hold up to 330kb of data on a one side. A later version of the expansion chassis also included a green-screen monitor and two floppy drives, but had only four S-100 slots. A standard serial port was available. It shared internal resources with the keyboard, which made problematic baud rates higher than 300. The Pennywhistle 300-baud modem was often provided with this machine. The MECA digital "intelligent" tape drive could also be used.

Dutch CompuData imported the Sorcerer into the Europe. When sales in the US dropped because of the heavy competition in home computers market, Exidy Inc. stopped production of the Sorcerer. CompuData then produced the original Sorcerer in Holland in exactly the same configuration, but with the CompuData Systems Trademark for the European market.

EXIDY Inc. of Richardson, Texas, finally closed the doors on March 26th 1982.