Collecting old microprocessors (as opposed to Computers)

From: e.tedeschi <e.tedeschi_at_ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Sat Jun 21 11:55:25 1997

Brett wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, e.tedeschi wrote:
> > Sam Ismail wrote:
> > > On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Benedict Chong wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Oh, thank you for the suggestion BUT I have SEVEN TI99/4A(s). MYproblem
> > is the 4004 and the 8008 !
>
> 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

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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