< > Babbage was not the first to come up with the idea of a computer, but < > can trace the development of modern computers back to him. You can't < > anything like that with Holt's chip -- it had no influence. Maybe the < > were other Big Bangs before The Big Bang, but if they didn't create a < > Universe, nobody cares. Prior to Holts chip, the F14 CADC there wer lesser chips. All of them were on a line started in the late 50s with a simple IC of no real usefulness. The little bangs were the devlopment of processes that alloed more transistors to a die, developing MOSFET technology that were more compact and better suited to planar circuits on the die. Things like well isolation all contributed and happend on lesser circuits than a CPU. We are talking about commonly used chips like gates, adders, shift registers, rams and ROMS. Lets face it, the 8008 would have been a burp instead of a bang if the ROM and RAM chips weren't there too! < I think this attitude in general carelessly disregards an amazing body o < work. In fact, I think people do care. I'm not so quick to sweep My whole point. < historical facts underneath the carpet simply as a matter of convenience < I'd rather know the complete and true story, and not just the easiest on < to remember. < < Furthermore, you are are discounting the AMI microprocessors of the < early 70s, which Holt went on to design after the F14 CADC, and the < influence those chips may have had on later designs.