Corrections to trivia

From: dave dameron <ddameron_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Oct 7 11:59:50 1998

Hi All,
At 07:52 AM 10/6/98 -0400, Allison wrote:

>No Intel never made a cheap computer. They made CPUs, Memory and support
>chips. The MCS. MDS, intellect even the SDKs were anything but cheap.
>
>< enabled them to make it cheap, and they commercialized it. The level o
>< integration is the salient feature of the chip, but not the main featur
>< of the important event.
>
>It's everything as the 8008 hit the level of integration needed to produce
>a viable general purpose commercial cpu.
>
>For example why is it that prople are hunting for MARK-8 and Kenbec's
>when the most likely find (greatest quantity) for 8008 machines is a
>MCS-8 from intel?!?!
>
Yes, I would like to find a "Intellec 8", I think the same as a MCS-8, too.
(Intel seems to use the term "MCS-8" very loosely in the literature I have.)
There was also a single board computer, Sim8-01 with 2k bytes EPROM and 1k
byte ram. It could be used with a MP7 EPROM (1702A) programmer.

Another company was Martin research which made "Mike" series computers.
Haven't found any of these either, but did find by inter-library loan their
"Microcomputer Design" book, which has lots of 8008 info! It has a schematic
of their "Mike 4" system, an 8008 based unit with about 20 ic's.

It also included other minimal 8008 systems such as a 9 chip version. I have
found a source for 8008 chips, so maybe a homebrew 8008 system is more
likely as a future project.
-Dave
Received on Wed Oct 07 1998 - 11:59:50 BST