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Re:Poland in the 80's Through the Lens of French/Swiss Photo... by vram22 on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:21PM (#18683708)
From Ciarcia's How it all began article above:

[ While most people waited until the 8080 or 6502 to discover computing, back in 1974 I had an 8008 homebrew system running immediately after it appeared (see Photo 1). I paid $120 (converts to about $500 today) for that 8008 chip, and to this day, I remember sweating as I powered it up the first time. Would it be puff, pop, or hum? Well, it worked. ]

The parts about the subterfuge and skullduggery going on in the industry then are also interesting.

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Re:Poland in the 80's Through the Lens of French/Swiss Photo... by vram22 on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:32PM (#18683830)
The part in Ciarcia's "How it all began" article starting with:

"During the same decade all this was going on at my end, BYTE was experiencing significant changes as well."

is also very interesting. Several paragraphs from there describe how he started his own magazine, Circuit Cellar, after BYTE changed direction.

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