20 Mar
2007
20 Mar
'07
7:26 p.m.
Jos Dreesen wrote:
So why is it then that almost all early micros had
them ?
I had Z80 kit around 1983 with keyboard and 7 segment display.
a 7segment display with keyboard ( as in a H8) is
clearly more usable,
and would have cost nothing more. Or were early eproms (for the monitor
program) that expensive ?
What monitor program? I think the Altair 8080 came with a 256 byte
ram as main memory. I never did see the original magazines with the
but you now can find some good history about micros on the web to give
you a better idea of why they came with them the blinking lights.
http://www.bytecollector.com/mark_8.htm
Jos