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Motivation

The motivation for this project is both technical and cultural. In the technical side, I tried to produce a computer machine so simple that I can understand entirely from application software to chips and wires. In the cultural side I wanted to have a taste of an epoch (1970s) when minicomputers of this kind were popular and lovely.

LC-81 was conceived to be both simple and "historical correct" with respect to the assumed retro context. Unfortunately some legacy components such as punch tapes and magnetic tapes are out of my reach, so I will need to replace them with others such as audio cassettes and floppy disks, but the aim is still to keep the machine as old fashioned as possible even with these limitations.