I-4004

[Mike Katz]

As for microprocessors, there are MANY MANY micros that preceded the PC.

You can find a list here:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor_chronology

The 8088 is a late comer to the microprocessor world.


On 11/16/2021 4:08 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
> Did the 4004 chip start our interest in microcomputing? It is 50 today.
> Classic computing begins earlier but for the masses, if they could be
> called that in the early seventies, this was it. I hesitate in calling it
> the first microprocessor as pc'ers will object.
>
> Happy computing all.
>
> Murray  🙂