ELF TURNS 30

摘要

It was 30 years ago this month that Popular Electronics magazine ran their "COSMAC Elf" construction project. Unlike its more famous cousin - the Altair 8800, which appeared just a year before — the Elf was a microcomputer project that anybody could afford. In the days when an 8080A chip alone cost $300, the entire Elf could be assembled for something like $80. That made the COSMAC Elf the first microcomputer for many experimenters, especially poor high school students like me.