The Intel 8008 was an early byte-oriented microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel
and introduced in April 1972.
It was an 8-bit CPU with an external 14-bit address bus that could address 16KB of memory.
The 8008 was packaged as a kit and offered by Intel in November of 1973.
The MCS-8 was not a computer kit but a fully built development system,
designed to aid engineers in learning about and developing 8008 systems.
A full system included software (on paper tape; a paper tape reader was an accessory for the system)
to edit and assemble 8008 code and then burn the code to PROM.