More information is here:
https://firstmicroprocessor.com/?doing_wp_cron=1700608229.8666059970855712890625

I think that is the designers (Rod Holt?) website.  Apparently he won a legal 
battle to use the term "first microprocessor" for whatever that is worth.

Will


> On 11/21/2023 2:56 PM CST Brent Hilpert via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2023-Nov-21, at 1:03 AM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 7:01 PM ben via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> > wrote:
> > > On 2023-11-20 5:36 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
> > > > On Nov. 15, 1971 Intel commercially released the 4004 microprocessor 
> > > > which
> > > > some consider to be the first. Nonetheless, even if not in agreement, it
> > > > made possible the instrument which drives the classic-computing 
> > > > industry or
> > > > at the very least our hobby!
> > > > 
> > > > Happy computing.
> > > > 
> > > > Murray 🙂
> > > https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/swiss-physicist-builds-complete-intel-4004-computer-out-of-smd-transistors/3738
> > > THE DIY VERSION
> > So what are the other contenders and what do they bring to table
> 
> A claim is made for the first microproc being the CADC processor of an early 
> flight-control system for the F-14, made by Garrett AiResearch ~ 1969. I 
> haven't looked into it in depth - or I don't know of detailed info being 
> available - but apparently it was a CPU made up of several LSI chips. In my 
> opinion that disqualifies it, but it's all into the mug's game of specifying 
> 'first at what?'



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