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Homebuilt computer. A custom built or home-built computer is a computer assembled by its user and made of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components, rather than purchased as a complete and ready to use machine, also known as a "pre-built" or out-of-the-box system. Building a computer at home is generally considered a cost-effective alternative ...
The Mark-8 is a microcomputer design from 1974, based on the Intel 8008 CPU (which was the world's first 8-bit microprocessor). The Mark-8 was designed by Jonathan Titus, a Virginia Tech graduate student in chemistry. After building the machine, Titus decided to share its design with the community and reached out to Radio-Electronics and ...
Build Your Own Z80 Computer: design guidelines and application notes is a book written by Steve Ciarcia, published in 1981 by McGraw-Hill. The book explains step-by-step the process of building a computer from the ground up, using the Zilog Z80 8-bit Microprocessors , including building a power supply, [1] keyboard, and interfaces to a CRT ...
Hack computer. The Hack Computer is a theoretical computer design created by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken and described in their book, The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles. [1] In using the term “modern”, the authors refer to a digital, binary machine that is patterned according to the von ...
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0192-4575. Kilobaud Microcomputing was a magazine dedicated to the computer homebrew hobbyists from 1977 to 1983. [ 1] It was one of the three influential computer magazines of the 1970s, along with BYTE and Creative Computing. It focused mostly on the kit-build market, rather than the pre-assembled home computers that emerged, and as the kit ...
The SILLIAC (Sydney version of the Ill inois A utomatic C omputer, i.e. the Sydney ILLIAC), an early computer built by the University of Sydney, Australia, was based on the ILLIAC and ORDVAC computers developed at the University of Illinois. Like other early computers, SILLIAC was physically large. The computer itself was a single large cabinet ...
History of personal computers