Posted on 11/18/2011 5:38:57 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
Today on the 40th anniversary of the 4004, the worlds first microprocessor, the world should salute Intel and the three inventors of that microchip for the accomplishment.
But lets not forget that a little bit of luck and good lawyering helped too.
The 4004 was essentially a contract engineering assignment.
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And thanks to you, Eagle Brother. May God bless us all.
Graduated HS in '71. In 1968 I was in my school's first ever "computer" class. The computer was a Digital PDP-8, and we actually toggled stuff right into it. The class was (obviously) all new material for everybody. Nobody had ever sen a computer before. The first thing we learned was what "binary" meant.
Enough said.
Had several friends who were in places they could not talk about. hee hee hee
Yet we were there.
I was using the 4004 to build what was probably one of the first mobile digital data recorders ever used. We hooked up the 4004 to a TI CRT tty terminal that included cassette recorders to replace punched paper tape. The 4004 processed analog and digital inputs, and stored it on the tapes. I still have some of the tapes.
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