The TK-80 was an 8080-based single-board computer kit developed by Nippon Electric Company (NEC) in 1976. It was originally developed for engineers who considered using the μCOM-80 family in their product. It was successful among hobbyists in late 1970s in Japan, due to its reasonable price and an expensive computer terminal not being required.
TK-80 (assembled)
TK-80 demonstrated controlling a model train at Bit-INN
Advert in Transistor Gijutsu Sep.1976. "The closest microcomputer with unlimited potential." The price includes shipping cost.
The NEC μCOM series is a series of microprocessors and microcontrollers manufactured by NEC in the 1970s and 1980s. The initial entries in the series were custom-designed 4 and 16-bit designs, but later models in the series were mostly based on the Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 8-bit designs, and later, the Intel 8086 16-bit design. Most of the line was replaced in 1984 by the NEC V20, an Intel 8088 clone.
μCOM-4: μPD751
μCOM-75: μPD7508
μCOM-80F: μPD8080AF
μCOM-82: μPD780C-1