The โ€œvillainโ€ of the piece on the Designed in California preview today is Processor Technology and the Sol, a computer I had never heard of before working on these episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol-20

https://relay.fm/upgrade/621

Sol-20 - Wikipedia

@jsnell Amazing! I had a chance to meet Lee Felsenstein in person at NaClcon last week. ICON.
@threatresearch @jsnell We lived at the same co-op house at Cal in the 60s and saw him at a reunion about 10 years ago.
@jsnell I remember reading about these in Creative Computing, though Iโ€™ve never seen one in person. Definitely one of the more interesting pre-Trinity early systems.
@jsnell I think I knew someone with a Sol 20 back in the day, but the details are lost to the dim times.
@jsnell I used to visit computer stores often in the 1970โ€™s & 1980โ€™s to see what was new, as well as subscribing to many personal computer magazines. Remember Processor Technology & the Sol very well, all these small brands disappeared after the IBM PC arrived ๐Ÿ™