early non-US personal computers

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sun Oct 15 05:38:00 2000

At 12:57 12/10/00 +0100, John Honniball wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:46:41 -0400 (EDT) Doug Salot
><doug_at_blinkenlights.com> wrote:
> > I'm looking for foreign brothers of machines like the Altair
> > (microprocessor), Kenbak-1 (discrete logic), Minivac (clocked relays),
> > GENIAC (rotary switches), etc. I'm also looking for pointers to old (say,
> > 1940-1970) electronic hobbyist mags outside of the US.
>
>UK Magazines (and published constructional projects):
>
>Practical Wireless
>Practical Electronics (UK101 with 6502 CPU in 1979)
>Everyday Electronics
>Electronics Today International (6800 machine in 1977)
>Hobby Electronics
>Wireless World
>Elektor (Junior Computer, SC/MP I think)
>Personal Computer World (Early issues included electronics)

About the same time as the original Altair articles appeared in the US,
Electronics Australia published construction details for a personal
computer that was a cut-down PDP-8. Yes, I know there's not much to an -8
but the EA system had fewer instructions. It's been a while since I read
the articles but suspect the system was made from 7400 series ICs. I do
recall it had 256 words of memory and a LED based front panel.

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