Everyone remembers their first. Their first CPU, that is. For many of us, it was the RCA 1802 thanks to the COSMAC Elf articles that ran in Popular Electronics. The later versions of the chip family ...
Looking around at the personal computing markets in modern times, there seem to be a lot of choices in the market. In reality, though, almost everything runs on hardware from a very small group of ...
Lee Hart’s 1802 Membership Card is a reproduction of the original Popular Electronics COSMAC 1802 Elf computer that’s been shrunken down to fit in an Altoids tin! In an earlier column, I mentioned how ...