Electronics Australia initially believed that it was the first such kit, but later discovered that Radio-Electronics had just beaten it with their Mark-8 by one month.

However, Electronics Australia staff believed that their TTL design was superior to the Mark-8, as it did not require the purchase of an expensive microprocessor chip.

The later articles included a variety of peripherals, allowing the computer to interface to a keypad, octal display, paper tape loader, paper tape puncher, printer, keyboard, music player, teleprinter, magnetic tape recorder and alphanumeric display.

The designer Jamieson Rowe described [3]the EDUC-8 as:Perhaps the best way to start is by describing the computer as a scaled-down version of the Digital Equipment PDP-8 machine -at least, in terms of its instruction repertoire and basic console layout.

It has the same eight basic types of instructions, and for convenience I have used the same mnemonic names and similar coding.