From: Bert Haskins (bhaskins_at_triton.net)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 22:52:28 EST
David Ross wrote:
> > How about the Timex/Sinclair that came as a kit and had 1K RAM (upgradeable
> > to 2K) and played through your TV?
>
> This was *much* later, and the ZX machines were vastly more powerful than anything based on the
> 8008 would be.
Amen to that!.
I never really sold a job that used the 8008 but it did give me a head start.
I did lots! of 8080,8085,Z80,68xx, and 8088 thru 586 based machine
tools and support systems.
>
>
> Bert, was yours one of the early Mark-8 machines? That's the only Intel-based machine I know of that
> preceded the Altair.
Mine was wire-wrapped from scratch, it was a little bit before the Mark-8.
It took lots of TTL support chips to even make it run.
Before the 8008 I had done a bunch of clocked eprom state machines, today
they would probably be called PLCs.
Intels 2708 eprom was actually a bigger breakthru for the control industry
than the 8008 at that point in time.
.
>
>
> BTW, many of us are still running Intel 4004 and 8008-based systems...as the controllers
> in our household appliances:-)
>
I didn't know that, I thought most appliances were using variations of the TI TMS1000.
BTW In terms of total numbers of chips produced I think that this (TMS1000) is the
most popular UP ever produced.
Have fun, Bert
>
> - David R.
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