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Also known as
  
MK14

Type
  
computer kit

Units sold
  
50,000

Manufacturer
  
Science of Cambridge

Introductory price
  
UK£39.95

MK14

Release date
  
1977; 40 years ago (1977)

The Microcomputer Kit 14, or MK14 was a computer kit sold by Science of Cambridge of the United Kingdom, first introduced in 1977 for UK£39.95, and which eventually sold over 50,000 units.

It used a National Semiconductor SC/MP CPU (INS8060), 128 (expandable to 256) bytes of random access memory (RAM) which was directly expandable to 640 bytes on board and 2170 bytes total. It used an 8 or 9 red light-emitting diode (LED) seven segment display, there was also optional VDU supporting 32×16 text or 64×64 graphics. Input and output was a 20 key keyboard and reset switch, with an optional 128 bytes of RAM and 16 I/O lines available by adding an INS8154N RAM/IO chip. Cassette-based and PROM storage were optional extras, a sound card was not included but a design for one was provided.

The MK14 could address up to 64 KB of memory space by adding a few chips (the NADS address strobe indicated when the most significant 4 bits of address were available to be captured by an external latch); many pioneering home-brew computer magazines such as Personal Computer World, and Practical Electronics carried details of user modifications.

References

MK14 Wikipedia


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