Subject: Re: TK50Z
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/08/1998 14:31:25
For anyone interested the 4004 is covered in:
http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~bayko/cpu.html#4004
along with a large number of other
"Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present"
Its pretty much pure geek fodder :)
David/absolute
Things to regret not having after transferring 'beans' between two beanbags
#1 : A vacuum cleaner
#2 : A floor the same colour as the beans
#3 : More beans
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On February 7, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> > BTW, what's 4004?
>
> The 4004 was (I believe) the first microprocessor to come out of
> Intel. It was 4-bits wide and was designed for desktop calculator
> applications. Following it was the 8008, an 8-bit microprocessor,
> which was used in several hobbyist microcomputers in the early-mid
> 70's...the Scelbi 8B comes to mind. The 8008 was followed by the
> 8080, which I'm sure everyone here knows about.
>
>
> -Dave McGuire
> mcguire@neurotica.com
>