I think many of us built our own machines, long before IBM got involved.
Before it was a 'personal computer', it was a 'hobbyist machine'! Lessee,
my Intel 4004-based machine went together in 1975, the I upgraded it to an
8008, then 8080. Later, in 1978, I went o the Motorola 6800 and never
looked back to Intel.
I started before Altair, Comemco, Commodore, PolySci, SWTPC, Hazelwood,
Radio Shack, IBM or any of the pre-package machines hit the streets.
The IBM PC made the computer 'an appliance', no longer a hobby device (good
or bad).
-Matt W0XEU
Actually, I built it from discreet components (transistors for you
youngsters!).
not much memory, and not very fast, and only machine language (0's and 1's)
for programming purposes, but it worked!
Dave
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