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I never touched a 4004. Was aware of the final product. There where a number of early IC companies in the process of putting out their first single chip processors. The first one I came in contact (physical) with was the Intel 8008 CPU. And at that period of time when I was in the process with some other Westinghouse AeroSpace/Defense Engineers of contemplating building our own personal computer also investigated Fairchild, Motorola and Signetic early CPU lines. The Signetic Pace full 16 bit address line CPU comes to mind. I finally settled on a later design, the Intel 8080 to be the one of choice, but at that period of time ended up purchasing a full system from a Philadelphia Computer developer using the then state of the art if you will, Zilog Z80. I remember borrowing for about a year or so a teletype 33 machine from my employer to connect to that Z80 System. Cromemco was the name of the company that developed that early computer.
I purchased assemblers, and actually a full version of I believe it was Fortran C, as well as some primitive text editors. The machine was a bit faster then the "16 bit wide mini-computer" I worked on at the defense plant that went into the first generation F16 Fire Control Radar system as well as the first generation Harpoon Cruise Missile system we provided the military with.
Boy. Where going back a few years taint we.