At 11:25 AM 11/9/97 -0500, Allison wrote:
>the first BYTE cover was sept 1976 and there was never such article around
>then. There are two I remember the first was a terminally simple machine
>of extreme limitations that illustrated microprogramming (simple TTL) and
>was very low parts count. The other in the Aug and Sept 1985 Bytes called
>EGO and was a 16bit general purpose machine using mostly TTL SSI/MSI (74181
>was the most complex part). <SSI small scale integration 7400, 7474 are
>examples and MSI medium scale integration such as 74181 or complex
>counters.>
I hate to sound like a Nick_at_Nite Retromercial, but "Sorry, Charlie!" ;^> As
I wander into from my office to the furnace room (a now converted basement
library) I dig up the earliest issue of Byte that I own.
The cover shows May 1976, and in the table of contents it's listed as Issue
#9. It also has a couple nice pix of the MOS Kim-1 (no Commie anywhere --
must be an *early* version)
Holy-Moly -- something I've not heard about yet on the list -- Page 35
there's an ad for "Introducing the Micro-Altair -- The complete Computer
System that requires just a keyboard and TV monitor for use." Kool.
Anyway, just thought I'd toss my input into the ring...
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not*
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Received on Sun Nov 09 1997 - 04:30:35 GMT