The SOL Terminal Computer was built by Processor Technology and designed by the Home Brew Computer Club president Lee Felsinstien. It was origanally designed to be a TV Terminal. But the makers decided that since it included an 8080 microprocessor to develop it into a full blow computer. This was the first microcomputer with a built in video display interface. It was also one of the first to eliminate the need for switchs for entering programs into the computers memory by using ROM memory. The SOL system would be ready to accept commands from keyboard as soon as it was turned on thanks to a monitor program in ROM. It was also sold as a kit.