so when he looked for a new project for his Pocket Mini Computer, he looked at one of the earliest microcomputers available: the COSMAC VIP, a 1.76 MHz beast from 1977. The COSMAC VIP was a single ...

Although desktop computers existed prior to 1977 ... by which point over half a million microcomputers had been sold.

In perhaps the biggest departure from common microcomputers of the day ... it was abundantly clear these computers were the result of some blended design. Seeing the vintage enclosures outfitted ...

a computer engineer for IBM, and Dick Bemis to market Suding-designed microcomputers. Their microcomputers have been among the most advanced accessible at that moment. The two guys and their ...

but the 1977 TRS-80 was actually one of the first microcomputers, and hobbyists loved it. The 1979 Atari 800 might have arrived a bit after the first personal computers, but its cutting-edge ...

Microcomputers can also be used to replace analog circuitry. Special interface circuits can be used to enable a digital computer to input and output analog signals (this will be discussed later). The ...