Friday, December 22, 2023

Byte Magazine -- Christmas -- December 22, 2023

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Christmas is coming.

I used to subscribe to Byte Magazine: The Small Systems Journal. On the cover of the December 1975 issue, parents appear to be terrified of a newly arrived microcomputer and angry at Santa for delivering it. The text on the monitor says "COMPUTERS: THE ULTIMATE TOYS." Early microcomputers tended to do everything in uppercase. 

The Altair was probably the first commercially available microcomputer. The Motorolla 6800 was an 8-bit microprocessor. 

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