Sometimes a write-up of a piece of retrocomputing hardware goes way beyond the hardware itself and into the industry that spawned it, and thus it is with [OldVCR]’s resurrection of a Blasto arcade ...

Over on YouTube [CuriousMarc] and [TubeTimeUS] team up for a multi-part series E&L MMD-1 Mini-Micro Designer Restoration. The E&L MMD-1 is a microcomputer trainer and breadboard for the Intel 8080. It ...

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Creating the 8080: The Processor That Started the PC Revolution If the introduction of the Intel 8008 led to a variety of interesting devices that can be considered the first early PCs, it was its ...

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 ...