Subject: Re: TK50Z
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/08/1998 02:16:02
On February 8, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On February 8, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> > >  The 4004 was (I believe) the first microprocessor to come out of
> > >Intel.  It was 4-bits wide and was designed for desktop calculator
> > 
> > Wasn't it one of the very very first microprocessors? I mean, on a chip and
> > not just an "accumulator" or whatever they were called in the '40s?
> 
>   I believe so, yes.  Not a very big chip, either...the 4004 is a
> 14-pin DIP, the 8008 is an 18...

  Sorry..typo...I mean the 4004 is a 16 pin DIP, not a 14.  Time for
sleep. :)

     -Dave