Dec. 19, 1974: Build Your Own Computer at Home!

hehe, I had one of these, then got a model with the 8088 or z80 eventually used the z80 to learn assembler...ahh memory(s)

Dec. 19, 1974: Build Your Own Computer at Home!

via Wired Top Stories by Randy Alfred on 12/19/11

1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn't offer much, but it's the small start of a big trend toward small things. At its heart was the Intel 8080 microprocessor, with the remarkable capacity of 8 bits, or 1 byte. The kit offered a 256-byte memory, just about enough to contain one sentence of text.

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