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And if the Altair 8800 clone is not enough for you, the Kenbak-1 might be your thing.

There are a lot of devices that claim to have been the first personal computer. Surprisingly, the Kenbak-1 is no exception. 😏

It's rather difficult to judge in 2022, and since we don't want to conjure up a new I-was-the-first-war™ here, we'll leave it at that.

We already reported on the device in Issue #12. This week, however, we found a nice way to play with the device without having to warm up the soldering iron.

Yep, an emulator.

Again, pencil, paper and brains are required. If you've ever wanted to hack machine code into a machine via simple switches, and don't have the nerve for the Aldaid 8800, you might be really happy here.

The person responsible for the nice JavaScript implementation doesn't hang around on the usual platforms, so unfortunately we can't give credit.

Nevertheless: Excellent work and thanks for sharing!