 For example, the 14-bit address, which could access "16 K × 8 bits of memory", needed to be latched by some of this logic into an external memory address register (MAR).The 8008 could access 8 input ports and 24 output ports.For controller and CRT terminal use, this was an acceptable design, but it was rather cumbersome to use for most other tasks, at least compared to the next generations of microprocessors.