22 Apr
2016
22 Apr
'16
9:17 p.m.
On 04/22/2016 09:03 PM, ben wrote:
Too Early , Too Slow , Too $$$ is my guess. With out
the 6800/6502
8080/Z80 price wars, how much would a 8 bit CPU be in the late 70s?
$75?
Given the price of memory and other "then-LSI" in the late 70s, $75
doesn't sound unreasonable at all. NSC did bring out the PACE, which
was essentially a single-chip version of an IMP-16 implementation.
But, like all things National, they didn't know how to sell any of their
own stuff.
--Chuck