COSMAC ELF

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Date Introduced
1976
Photographer
Richards, Mark
Dimensions
1 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.
Manufacturer
Netronics Research and Development, Ltd.
Credit Line
Gift of Bill Buzbee
Copyright Owner
© Mark Richards
Location
United States
Keywords
Homebrew
Object ID
102631015
Memory Type
Semiconductor
Memory Size
256 bytes
Memory Width
8-bit

RCA engineer Joseph A. Weisbecker designed the COSMAC ELF as a primitive hobbyist computer using the RCA COSMAC CDP-1802 8-bit microprocessor. Tom Pittman’s “Tiny Basic” could be used to write small BASIC programs.