from the April 1977 issue of Interface Age magazine by Adam Osborne The first small signs of a long predicted shake out are beginning to appear among microprocessor manufacturers. The first two casualties are the Elecronic Arrays EA9002 and possibly the Rockwell PPS-8. The EA9002 simply took too long to develop. The smallest EA9002 system has three chips: The EA9002 CPU with read/write memory, external read only memory and I/O ports.

from the May 1977 issue of Interface Age magazine by Adam Osborne Now that the Intel 8085 and 8048 are here, IMSAI is going for these two products; IMSAI is not planning to offer a Z-80 CPU card. I wonder why the Z-80 and the Intel products have to be mutually exclusive? I have had a chance to examine the 8085 and the 8048— and I believe some intriguing user patterns are likely to emerge.