It came out in 1974 and was the basis of the MITS Altair 8800, for which two guys named Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote BASIC, and millions of people began to realize that they, too, could have their ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. If the introduction of the Intel 8008 led to a variety of ...

I8080 is a bear to work with; it needs two support chips just to get it running, and it uses non-TTL voltages on the data bus. You may want to look for a Z-80 based board - it is binary compatible ...

“The 4004 and 8008 suggested it, but the 8080 made it real,” said Federico Faggin, Intel’s lead designer for the 8080 and its predecessor processors, the 4004 and 8008. Prior to the 8080’s launch in ...

The chip which paved the way for AMD’s illustrious future, eventually creating some of the best CPUs we've ever tested, entered mass production 50 years ago. AMD’s Am9080 had something of a shady ...

This is a collection of thirteen manauls for Intel products indexed from a to m. They include: a. Intel 8080 Microcomputer Systems User's Manual, July, 1975. b. MCS-8 Micro Computer Set, 8008 8 Bit ...

Over on his blog our hacker [Scott Baker] restores a Prompt 80, which was a development system for the 8-bit Intel 8080 CPU. [Scott] acquired this broken trainer on eBay and then set about restoring ...

The history of the world's largest semiconductor maker Intel's product, that is, the history of semiconductors, is not an overstatement, and if you look at its representative model, you can see what ...

In the 45 years since Intel released the world’s first commercial single-chip CPU, Intel has consistently raised the bar on microprocessor architecture, giving birth to the entire PC industry and ...

The news makes nerds wistful: production of the Z80 processor, one of the most versatile 8-bit processors ever, is being discontinued after almost 48 years. The manufacturer announced the end of ...