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I started subscribing to get the ACC newsletter around the time of the Weeny-Bitter project (VOL 3 ISS 3 AUG. 75 )
This was to make a processor using multiple TTL chips as this pre-dated the first single chip solutions.
Looks like I finally signed up to be a member around 1976. See the list of members
The first real microprocessor that I worked with was an early engineering sample of the Motorola 6800 family. It was marked as an XC6800. See this link for some background on the name/number of engineering samples. The early evaluation devices were distributed to engineers packaged within a suitcase Evaluation module. This must have been around 1974 while I was working at, Clarke Chapman's Advanced Technology Division. Later called NEI - Industrial Technology Unit, where I was involved in the development of microprocessor controlled systems for power plant and other heavy engineering products, design and testing and automated control.
Motorola released an 8bit bus version called the 68008 and I designed / built
a single board computer using this as a hobby starting around 1981. At the time, I worked for a
technology consultancy, Gellman, Hayward and Partners, and I used their Apple Lisa computer to
document the project.
