by musovern | Apr 21, 2019 | Vintage Computer
The EDUC-8 micro-computer was first published in the well known Electronics Australia magazine way back in August 1974. It was designed by Jim Rowe and was to be presented as the first do it yourself home build computer. Sadly though just before publication, the...
by musovern | Apr 20, 2019 | Single Board Computers
The SBC8080 is a simple board computer consisting of an Intel 8080 based CPU board and a SUB board with a memory / terminal interface. Over time, this product will be the printed circuit board of the CPU board. The parts to be placed on the printed circuit board...
by musovern | Apr 20, 2019 | Vintage Computer
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982. Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US $595.Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and...
by musovern | Jan 30, 2019 | Single Board Computers
Here we have a common credit card terminal based on a Z80 chipset running the earliest published BASIC port of Eliza from the July 1977 issue of Creative Computing. I replaced the terminal’s ROM with Microsoft BASIC and added in stuff to mirror the last printed line...
by musovern | Jan 30, 2019 | Single Board Computers
The TEC-1 is a single-board kit computer first produced by the Australian hobbyist electronics magazine Talking Electronics in the early 1980s.[1] The design by John Hardy and Ken Stone was based on the Zilog Z80 CPU, had 2K of RAM and 2K of ROM in a default...
