[ShadowAce]

[blam]

40 years of microprocessor development

[jurroppi1]

Nifty article, thanks for posting!

[Mycroft Holmes]

Nice, snagged the 4004 photo for wallpaper. Loved that part, it really opened my eyes.

[justlurking]

It was hugh and series.

We just didn’t know how much so at the time.

[chuckles]

I was in college at this time studying electronics. I had a dream of repairing TV's. They kept feeding me this garbage of "1's" and Zero's. It made me sick. I wanted to learn analog. Every analog course ended up in digital nand and nor gates. I was ready to quit school and get a real education. I ended up with a "7" as a draft number so I didn't have to worry anymore about what to do. As I got back in my "civies" The phone company called and I worked there 30 years. In the mean time, The space race was full on and all of my classmates had jobs at NASA and it's contractors, while I climbed poles in the rain. They were inside the inner parts of the Moon Landing, and I was splicing cut cables and fighting dogs.

If I had just had someone to slap the sheite out of me, I coulda been a contender.

BTW, A year or two out of the Army, TV's were basically throw away's. They had replacement boards and were cheaper to buy a new one than repair. What a putz I was. How many people are born right at the right time, in the right interest, in the right place, for a quantum change in civilization?

[Wilum]

Thanks, you just flashed my life in front of me >:)

From the 4004 to the 8085 and beyond.