The Big Bang was named Babbage. Intel supplied the ammunition for a < revolution: cheap computers. The high level of integration was what 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?!?! This is not unlike the PDP-8. the PDP-8 really wasn't the first small computer. It was the first to be manufactured in large quantities at low cost and that it was a member of a family that spanned many years (PDP-5, 8, 8I, 8E, 8A DECmate). Allison