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8080 SDK

The original Intel 8080 design board - about 1975. And it only cost about $600 - half a month's salary for an engineer at the time.

It has everything! CPU, I/O, 256 bytes - NOT Megabytes! of memory.

All you need is a power supply, keyboard and TV monitor and a cassette tape recorder to store you 256 byte program.

 

This has enough electric power flowing though it to electrocute you. The white chips are ceramic for a reason. They are hot enough to burn you.

This was short-circuited by some high school students and delivered to me to fix. Sort of like running over a pet and taking the flattened body to a Vet...

 

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Uploaded on October 9, 2019
Taken on December 16, 2007