I have come to understand that shortly after the
original Busicom calculator came out with the 4004 chip,
very quickly, many more devices used the chip...everything
from research machines that measured how much food
cattle consume, to, I guess, Traffo-Data devices.
I think anyone of these devices would become a museum
piece. I would like to find a list of such devices, to keep
a look-out for them, as they may be disappearing quickly.
I have an old line-printer burried in my mini-storage,
which is supposed to have that chip. I opened it up to
look, a few years ago, and it did have a white chip, which
ressembled the 4004 chip that I saw on display in the
Intel Museum in Santa Clara, however, unlike the one in
the museum, this chip had no writing on it. I also know
a man who says he has an old printer with a 4004 chip in
it. (He says his sister is still using it, and doesn't want
to give it up just now. But I think he is really saying
she doesn't want to give it up at all.)
Anybody know any more printers or other devices with the
4004 chip?
---Mark Metzler
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Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 23:52:57 GMT