CC-folks, What may be the earliest substantial surviving intel 8008 code (circa 1972) has been rescued from eight 1702 PROMs (thanks Dwight Elvey) and disassembled (thanks James Markevitch) and is now online for comment at: http://www.digibarn.com/stories/bill-pentz-story/8008-listing.html The team working on this is making their best guess that this was the particular code that controlled the Tektronix 4023 color raster display which in turn had boards in a card cage that controlled the other peripherals. Original SacState project initiator and leader Bill Pentz donated the surviving version of this system (consisting of boards and some documentation) a couple of years ago. One board contained the 1702s and we had no idea if there was anything still left in them. Surprise surprise there was! The full system and its story is described at: http://www.digibarn.com/stories/bill-pentz-story/index.html with a 3D graphical reconstruction of what it might have looked like (it drove a Diablo hard disk pack, ASR-33, serial interface, keyboard, Tek 4023). The history, the claims... So far with many folks weighing in, this might indeed be the "first" complete microcomputer system, with peripherals, a primitive OS, language and etc. It was built by Cal State Sacramento working with Tektronix and Intel, starting in the spring of '72 and getting stuff operational over the summer and fall of that year. As best as project leader Bill Pentz can recollect this system was processing 50,000 patient medical records and plotting color charts on the Tek by spring of '73. It also ran IBM BAL (370 mainframe assembly language programs) in emulation. We are still looking for someone who can peruse their backs issues of Popular Electronics from '73 and '74 to look for a brief mention of this project (anyone got a set?). So feel free to comment on the code. Note that for one eROMs there was either a bent pin or bad line -> bit 5 missing so its guesswork there. bruce