Corrections to trivia - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Oct 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