
Originally Posted by
YoDude9999
I have loved Intel since they introduced the 8080 chip back in the 70's. It was the first real micro processor chip that was made widely available to the general public. This was back in the day when people hand crafted homemade computers from scratch and Radio Shack carried all the parts you could ever want to do it with.
If you were careful in your building practices, you could construct a fully functional home computer, interface it to a monochrome monitor (which was all there was at the time), a keyboard, 8 inch floppy drive, 64K of memory and it would run balls out at 2MHZ on a proven operating system called CP/M.
Those were the days, but look how far we've come since then! WOW!