Launched as the Intel 8080, it would go on to be recognised as the world's first general-purpose microprocessor and 50 years on, Team Blue is celebrating the success of the little chip.

[smbaker] is placing his magnetic bubble memory module to work in a Heathkit H8, an Intel 8080-based microcomputer from the the late 70s. The video goes into great detail on the theory of how thes ...

The Intel 8080 didn’t revolutionise microprocessors – it created the microprocessor market. “The 4004 and 8008 suggested it, but the 8080 made it real,” says Federico Faggin, Intel’s lead designer for ...

Should Uncle Sam ever need a crate of the Intel 8080 from 1974 for example, Rochester Electronics can oblige. Thus when we’re looking for the oldest CPUs, it’s those available from regular ...