[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[null and void]

Damn! I remember when the 4004 came out!

[Uri’el-2012]

the Datapoint 2200. It seems Intel was contracted to replace the TTL parts in the Datapoint with a microprocessor, which turned into the 4004 processor.

[Signalman]

It was a 4 bit CPU and ran at a blazing clock speed of 740khz (.74mhz)

[ThunderSleeps]

Cut my computing teeth writing assembly for an 8080...sigh

[Lancey Howard]

And to think, it all began because we were able to reverse-engineer a transistor from the June, 1947 UFO crash near Roswell. The work was done quickly, and transistors were commercially available by the early 1950s. Here is the "official" story, and I suppose it's a perfectly decent explanation for the masses:

From November 17, 1947 to December 23, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at AT&T's Bell Labs in the United States, performed experiments and observed that when two gold point contacts were applied to a crystal of germanium, a signal was produced with the output power greater than the input.[7] Solid State Physics Group leader William Shockley saw the potential in this, and over the next few months worked to greatly expand the knowledge of semiconductors. The term transistor was coined by John R. Pierce as a portmanteau of the term "transfer resistor".

[martin_fierro]

8088 BABY

You never forget your first.