> On March 10, 2019 at 9:30 PM Guy Dunphy <gu...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > At 06:59 PM 10/03/2019 -0400, you wrote: > > > >> On March 10, 2019 at 6:10 PM ben via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 3/10/2019 3:18 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > >> > Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel at texas > >> > Instruments created an integrated circuit designed to replace the > >> > calulator. Historians, though not all, credit this development as the > >> > beginning of the electronic-computing revolution that was truly underway > >> > by > >> > the mid-70s. Vintage/classic computing our hobby goes back that far as us > >> > baby-boomers can attest to. > >> > > >> > Happy computing all! > >> So do have more information on said device? > >> I am using a 2901 bit slice and that came out in 1975. :) > >> Ben. > > > >Here is a little bit of info on it: > >http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/ti_cal-tech1.html > > > That's fascinating, thanks. I'd never heard of it. > > The Intel 4004 came out in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 > I'd understood that was the first chip that could be considered a 'processor' > (though it required some support chips to do anything.) > The TI Cal-Tech design was begun in 1965 and they had a working calculator in > 1967. I wonder if the chips in that had any kind of code programmability? > > Guy
I have seen some claims that this was the first microprocessor -- although not a single chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Air_Data_Computer Will "He may look dumb but that's just a disguise." -- Charlie Daniels "The names of global variables should start with // " -- https://isocpp.org
