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1976 SOL – 10 / 20
The Sol Computer was developed by Bob Marsh, Lee Felsenstein and Gordon French. Bob founded his company, Processor Technology, in April 1975 making 4K RAM memory boards for the Altair (cause MITS couldn’t make a working memory board) In June 1975, Bob and Les Solomon (technical editor of Popular Electronics) dreamed up the Sol-20 computer, […]
1979 UK-101
Made in the UK by Compukit in New Barnet, North London, the UK-101 was originally a copy of the Ohio Scientific Superboard II. Two years and various legal battles later the UK-101 became, technically, behind its erstwhile rival. You could buy the UK101 as a kit or as ready made for an extra fee. The […]
1979 Z80 Starter Kit
In the late 70’s, the Z80 was the most powerful 8-bit processor available on the market, with its instruction set of 158 instruction types and clear, easy to learn mnemonics, making it an ideal processor on which to learn assembly language programming. In 1979, S.D. Systems and Micro Design Concepts released the Z80 Starter Kit […]
1979 Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II
The TRS-80 model II, is the obscure brother of the TRS-80 family. Many internet pages deal with the models 1,3 and 4 but omit the model 2… This is maybe because the TRS-80 Model 2 was intended to be a business computer for use in offices and labs. Thus it is equiped with a full […]
1977 Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I
The Tandy TRS 80 model 1 was the first member of one of the most famous computer family. It was one of the first home computer and was launched at the same time as famous computers like the Apple II or the Commodore PET. Beside, Tandy competitors nicknamed was “Trash-80”. The TRS-80 was developed was developed within the […]
1977 Commodore PET
The Commodore PET 2001 was a very successful machine. Four models were made: early 4KB models, the PET 2001-8N with 8 KB RAM, PET 2001-16N with 16 KB RAM and the PET 2001-32N with 32K RAM. This mchine was conceived by Chuck Peddle who later joined Tandon, a drive manufacturer. NAME PET 2001 MANUFACTURER Commodore […]
1976 Apple 1
The story of the development of the Apple 1 has became a “legend”. Here’s how it goes: Steve Wozniak, was working for Hewlett-Packard at the time, wanted to build his own computer. He couldn’t afford the Intel 8080 CPU (this CPU was very popular then, as it was used in the Altair 8800 & IMSAI […]
1970 DEC PDP-11
PDP-11 was a series of 16-bit minicomputers manufactured by Digital Equipment Corp. in the 1970s and 1980s. It pioneered the interconnection of all system elements—processor, RAM, and peripherals—to a single, bidirectional, asynchronous communication bus. This device, called Unibus, allowed devices to send, receive, or exchange data without the need for an intermediate memory pass. The […]
1977 Apple II
Apple II was the successor to the Apple 1 on which it was largely based. It was the very first commercial success of the Apple Computer Company. Because Steve Wozniak wanted to demonstrate his Breakout game with the new Apple II, he decided to add colour, sound and minimum paddle support to the Apple 1’s […]