On November 15th 1971 Intel’s 4004, the world’s first microprocessor, was advertised in Electronics News as a ‘micro-programmable computer on a chip’. Shortly afterwards at a computer conference Ted Hoff, who invented the chip, remembers an indignant engineer complaining to Stan Mazor: ‘How dare you say you’ve got a computer on a chip?’ “Mazor handed him ...
Read full article: It’s The Microprocessor!
from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/yarns/its-the-microprocessor-2017-03/
No comments:
Post a Comment