Comment Re:ELF-II from a kit (Score 1) 1485
This was my first computer too, built in 1978. A strange little CPU, the RCA 1802. It is probably what led to my eventual writing ground-test code for satellites that used them, and my general career using microcontrollers. You could battery power an ELF project, which made robots kind of neat for high-school projects. The 1802 still has a following, too: http://www.cosmacelf.com/