On 04/22/2016 09:03 PM, ben wrote: > Too Early , Too Slow , Too $$$ is my guess. With out the 6800/6502 > 8080/Z80 price wars, how much would a 8 bit CPU be in the late 70s? > $75?
Given the price of memory and other "then-LSI" in the late 70s, $75 doesn't sound unreasonable at all. NSC did bring out the PACE, which was essentially a single-chip version of an IMP-16 implementation. But, like all things National, they didn't know how to sell any of their own stuff. --Chuck
