![]() Like the Altair, the Nascom was open and flexible and eminently hackable, a blank canvas just waiting to be painted upon. It came, for example, with a real keyboard in lieu of toggle switches, and with video output in lieu of blinking lights. That said, the Nascom was actually a much more complete and capable machine once you got it put together (no easy feat). ![]() The obvious American counterpart to the Nascom was the original kit PC, the Altair. ![]() The most long-lived and successful of these were the products of a small company called Nascom. Before the likes of the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 and the Acorn Atom which I discussed in a previous post on British computing, there were the solder-them-yourself kits which began to arrive in 1978.
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