Corrections to trivia

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Tue Oct 6 13:27:18 1998

Sam wrote:
> Who's avoiding the issue? I think "microcomputer" most aptly defines what
> the F14 chip set is, taken as a whole. The 4004, the equivalent of the
> F14 CADC's SLF, also needed a bunch of support chips to make it useful
> (4001, 4002, 4003, etc. not to mention a bunch of TTL, which the CADC did
> NOT need, requiring only the chips in its basic set)

What bunch of TTL? If you could get by with registers (of which there were
16), you only needed a 4004 and the ROM chip to make a useful system. If you
needed more ROM, RAM, or I/O, you just added the appropriate 400x chips.
Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 13:27:18 BST