My first hands-on experience with a microprocessor development kit involved an Intel 8008, the first 8-bit microprocessor. That was in early 1973. The engineers and marketing people at Intel quickly ...

Intel introduced the EPROM at the February 1971 ISSCC in Philadelphia. To demonstrate the EPROM’s erasable feature as vividly as possible, the company produced a film. “The movie showed a pattern of ...

If you’ve ever handled a chip with a really strange or highly inconvenient pinout and suspected that the reason had something to do with the inner workings, you may be interested to see ...

After years of prototyping hobby electronics we’ve learned (several times actually) that when something’s not working it’s a problem with the hardware. Usually the jumper wires aren’t hooked up ...