Originally Posted by
Andy_K
Does this qualify?
My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 MC-10. It was only slightly more powerful than the Ray Subtracto-Adder.
I've got one still in the plastic wrap somewhere. I found it at a yard sale about 20 years ago, and it seemed like a cool bit of memorabilia, but I also have the one I got for Christmas in the mid 80's.
My late father-in-law built a computer based on the S-100 bus. Input as I recall was by a bank of toggle switches, probably 4 bit or 8 bit. Zilog was just down the road a couple of miles. That company drove the integration of processors into many products.