My four-yorkshireprogrammers contribution

[MRAB]

Gregory Ewing wrote:
> MRAB wrote:
> 
>> Mk14 from Science of Cambridge, a kit with hex keypad and 7-segment
>> display, which I had to solder together, and also make my own power
>> supply. I had the extra RAM and the I/O chip, so that's 256B (including
>> the memory used by the monitor) + 256B additional RAM + 128B more in the
>> I/O chip.
> 
> Luxury! Mine was a Miniscamp, based on a design published in
> Electronics Australia in the 70s. 256 bytes RAM, 8 switches
> for input, 8 LEDs for output. No ROM -- program had to be
> toggled in each time.
> 
> Looked something like this:
> 
>   http://oldcomputermuseum.com/mini_scamp.html
> 
> except that mine wasn't built from a kit and didn't look
> quite as professional as that one.
> 
[snip]
By the standards of just a few years later, that's not so much a
microcomputer as a nanocomputer!

I was actually interested in electronics at the time, and it was such
things as Mk14 which lead me into computing.