Editing Mark-8 (section)

{{Short description|Computer}}
[[Image:Radio Electronics Cover July 1974.jpg|thumb|The July 1974 issue of ''Radio-Electronics'': "Build The Mark-8: Your Personal Minicomputer".<ref name="RE-1974-07-J"/><ref name="RE-1974-07-PDF"/>]]

The '''Mark-8''' is a [[microcomputer]] design from 1974, based on the [[Intel 8008]] [[central processing unit|CPU]] (which was the world's first [[8-bit]] microprocessor). The Mark-8 was designed by Jonathan Titus, a [[Virginia Tech]] graduate student in chemistry. After building the machine, Titus decided to share its design with the community and reached out to ''[[Radio-Electronics]]'' and ''[[Popular Electronics]]''. He was turned down by ''Popular Electronics'', but ''Radio-Electronics'' was interested and announced the Mark-8 as a 'loose kit' in the July 1974 issue of ''Radio-Electronics'' magazine.<ref name="RE-1974-07-J">{{cite journal |last = Titus |first = Jonathan |title = Build the Mark 8 Computer |journal = Radio Electronics |volume = 45 |issue = 7 |pages =29–33 |date = July 1974}}</ref><ref name="RE-1974-07-PDF">[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Electronics/70s/1974/Radio-Electronics-1974-07.pdf Radio-Electronics; July 1974 issue.]</ref>