Raymond M. Holt was a co-founder of Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated, along with Manny Lemas. Microcomputer Associates Inc which produced the
6502The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced, it was the least expensive full-featured microprocessor on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one-sixth the price of...
-based Jolt Microcomputer also published the industry first publication called the Microcomputer Digest.
Holt designed and developed the world's first
microprocessorA microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit words...
chip set one year before Intel, the
Central Air Data ComputerThe Central Air Data Computer is the integrated flight control system used in the early versions of the US Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter. It is notable for its use of a MOS-based LSI chipset, the MP944, arguably making it a candidate for the first microprocessor design in history...
for the F-14 Tomcat.
Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated was later acquired by
SynertekSynertek, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1973. The initial founding group consisted of Bob Schreiner , Dan Floyd, Zvi Grinfas, Jack Baletto, and Gunnar Wetlesen. The manufacturing technology was MOS/LSI...
and created the
SYM-1The SYM-1 was a single board "trainer" computer produced by Synertek circa 1978. Originally called the VIM-1 , that name was changed for legal reasons sometime between April and August 1978....
, a
6502The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced, it was the least expensive full-featured microprocessor on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one-sixth the price of...
based single board microcomputer and successor to the
Kim-1The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, was a small 6502-based microcomputer kit developed and produced by MOS Technology, Inc. and launched in 1975...
and further developed the Super Jolt Microcomputer line of microcomputer cards.
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Raymond M. Holt was a co-founder of Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated, along with Manny Lemas. Microcomputer Associates Inc which produced the
6502The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced, it was the least expensive full-featured microprocessor on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one-sixth the price of...
-based Jolt Microcomputer also published the industry first publication called the Microcomputer Digest.
Holt designed and developed the world's first
microprocessorA microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit words...
chip set one year before Intel, the
Central Air Data ComputerThe Central Air Data Computer is the integrated flight control system used in the early versions of the US Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter. It is notable for its use of a MOS-based LSI chipset, the MP944, arguably making it a candidate for the first microprocessor design in history...
for the F-14 Tomcat.
Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated was later acquired by
SynertekSynertek, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1973. The initial founding group consisted of Bob Schreiner , Dan Floyd, Zvi Grinfas, Jack Baletto, and Gunnar Wetlesen. The manufacturing technology was MOS/LSI...
and created the
SYM-1The SYM-1 was a single board "trainer" computer produced by Synertek circa 1978. Originally called the VIM-1 , that name was changed for legal reasons sometime between April and August 1978....
, a
6502The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced, it was the least expensive full-featured microprocessor on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one-sixth the price of...
based single board microcomputer and successor to the
Kim-1The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, was a small 6502-based microcomputer kit developed and produced by MOS Technology, Inc. and launched in 1975...
and further developed the Super Jolt Microcomputer line of microcomputer cards. The Super Jolt was still in production as late as 2002 (over 30 years).
Ray is part
CherokeeThe Cherokee are a Native American people from the Southeastern United States...
Indian. His great-great grandparents were involved in the forced
Indian removalIndian Removal was a nineteenth century policy of the government of the United States to relocate Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river...
known as the
Trail of TearsThe Trail of Tears was the relocation and movement of Native Americans in the United States from their homelands to Indian Territory in the Western United States. The phrase originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831...
ending at
Indian TerritoryThe Indian Territory, also known as the Indian Territories and the Indian Country, was land set aside within the United States for the use of Native Americans...
, known today as
OklahomaOklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,617,316 residents in 2007 and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
.
Mr Holt attended
Dominguez High SchoolDominguez High School is a four-year secondary school located in Compton, California. It is part of the Compton Unified School District.The school has been classified as a Program Improvement school since 1997 and faces corrective action by the state of California...
in Compton, CA.
University of IdahoThe University of Idaho is the state of Idaho's flagship and oldest public university, located in the rural city of Moscow in Latah County in the northern portion of the state. UI is the state's land-grant and primary research university...
, Moscow, ID,
California Polytechnic State UniversityCalifornia Polytechnic State University, also officially recognized as Cal Poly, is a public university located in San Luis Obispo, California...
, Pomona, CA, and
Santa Clara UniversitySanta Clara University is a private, co-educational Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose members founded...
, Santa Clara, CA.