Early Kit Computer Archive, When Users Had to Write Their Own Software: Large Archive of "VIPER" and "PIPs for VIPs," 1978
RCA COSMAC VIP (a build it yourself microcomputer sold to hobbyists and students) archive of user programming periodicals, 1978 to 1980, documenting the late 1970s culture of kit computer ownership, reader written software, and newsletter based technical exchange before home computing became a retail software market. This low cost kit.....