21 Jun
1997
21 Jun
'97
4:55 a.m.
Brett wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, e.tedeschi wrote:
Well, the 4004 for actually designed by Intel for the Japanese firm
BUSICOM who wanted to use it (and actually did) in one of their desktop
calculators (I will find the model number presently and post it soon).
They (Busicom) could have owned the Microprocessor patent but they
decided to sell back to Intel all the other rights to research and so
Intel dominated the early market.
So there
enrico
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Sam Ismail wrote:
I thought the 8008 was developed to go into a terminal. And then the
original *user* decided against using it so Intel started hawking it
as a micro-cpu. It must hav made it into SOMETHING that was not a
computer. Someone mentioned thr front panel of a DEC but it must
have been used in some terminals. Anybody know if and which?
As I remember the 4004 was actually Intels first micro-cpu and I don't
know of any commercial product that used them - but I don't know
everything. Any product types and names?
BC On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Benedict Chong wrote:
Oh, thank you for the suggestion BUT I have SEVEN TI99/4A(s). MYproblem
is the 4004 and the 8008 ! There's a UK company that used to advertise
in the UK version of the
Elektor 4-5 years ago. They advertised the TI9900, NS32032 and other
odd CPUs.
You could probably go buy a TI99/4a from a thrift store for a few bucks
and rip the TI9900 out of it and save a couple bucks off of what Elektor
probably sells them for.