Mark-8

The July 1974 issue of Radio-Electronics: "Build The Mark-8: Your Personal Minicomputer".

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 graduate student Jonathan Titus and announced as a 'loose kit' in the July 1974 issue of Radio-Electronics magazine.^[1]

Project kit

The Mark-8 was introduced as a 'build it yourself' project in Radio-Electronics's July 1974 cover article, offering a US$5 booklet containing circuit board layouts and DIY construction project descriptions, with Titus himself arranging for $50 circuit board sets to be made by a New Jersey company for delivery to hobbyists. Prospective Mark-8 builders had to gather the various electronics parts themselves from a number of different sources.^[2]A couple of thousand booklets and some hundred circuit board sets were eventually sold.

The Mark-8 was introduced in R-E as "Your Personal Minicomputer". This may be readily understood considering that the microcomputer revolution had yet to happen; the word 'microcomputer' was still far from being common fare. Thus, in their announcement of their computer kit, the editors quite naturally placed the Mark-8 in the same category as the era's other 'minisize' computers.

Influences

Although not very commercially successful, the Mark-8 prompted the editors of Popular Electronics magazine to consider publishing a similar but more easily accessible microcomputer project, and just six months later, in January 1975, they went through with their plans announcing the Altair 8800.^[3]

See also

• Radio-Electronics
• Popular Electronics
• Microcomputer
• Minicomputer
• Altair 8800

References

1. ^ Titus, Jonathan (July 1974). "Build the Mark 8 Computer". Radio Electronics 45 (7): pp. 29–33. 
2. ^ Mark-8 Minicomputer, Bryan's Old Computers, retrieved Feb 11 2009
3. ^ About Forrest M. Mims III, By writer, editor and publisher Harry L. Helms, retrieved Feb 24 2009

External links

• The Mark-8 Minicomputer – a web page by Andrew Davie with Jonathan Titus' own description of the Mark-8 project (dead link)
• Mark-8 Minicomputer – an original Mark-8, restored to working condition
• A Mark-8 Experience – Terry Ritter's detailed memoir of building and running a Mark-8 in 1974.
• Der Mark 8 Minicomputer – written by Andreas Reichel, he built his own mark 8 in the year 2005
• Collection of old analog and digital computers at www.oldcomputermuseum.com
• http://www.floydcountyvirginia.org/directory/user_media/documents/226.pdf Roys Justus makes a copy of Mark-8 as it is in the Smithsonian

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