MK 14

The MK 14 is a home computer kit, which was brought by the British suppliers Science of Cambridge from 1978 to the market. The device was manufactured until 1980 and sold at a price of £ 39.95. Behind the company Science of Cambridge put the developer of the MK 14 Ian Williamson and the company owner Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry, the later the company Sinclair and Acorn founded. From the MK 14 15000-50000 units have been sold.

Hardware

The central component of the MK 14 is the National Semiconductor Microprocessor ISP-8A/600; he is not particularly powerful, but easy to program. Programming is done via a hexadecimal keyboard, for output a 7 -segment display was used. The memory was limited to 256 bytes, but could be extended to 640 bytes.