Fun & Games

Spot the Year

Read the spec sheet and drop your marker on the year it shipped. Lock in early on a hunch and you score more — but you'll be guessing before the giveaway line lands.

Machine 1 / 8Score: 0

Spec sheet

  1. 1.No screen, no keyboard — you program it by flipping switches on the front panel.
  2. 2.256 bytes of memory. Not kilobytes. Bytes.
  3. 3.Built around Intel's 8080 and sold as a mail-order kit you soldered yourself.
  4. 4.It hit the cover of Popular Electronics and lit the fuse on the personal-computer era.

2000

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