10 Mar
2019
10 Mar
'19
6:30 p.m.
At 06:59 PM 10/03/2019 -0400, you wrote:
That's fascinating, thanks. I'd never heard of it.
The Intel 4004 came out in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004
I'd understood that was the first chip that could be considered a 'processor'
(though it required some support chips to do anything.)
The TI Cal-Tech design was begun in 1965 and they had a working calculator in 1967. I
wonder if the chips in that had any kind of code programmability?
Guy
On March 10, 2019 at 6:10 PM ben via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 3/10/2019 3:18 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Here is a little bit of info on it:
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/ti_cal-tech1.html Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James
Van Tassel at texas
Instruments created an integrated circuit designed to replace the
calulator. Historians, though not all, credit this development as the
beginning of the electronic-computing revolution that was truly underway by
the mid-70s. Vintage/classic computing our hobby goes back that far as us
baby-boomers can attest to.
Happy computing all!
So do have more information on said device?
I am using a 2901 bit slice and that came out in 1975. :)
Ben.