On 3/13/19 7:10 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
> Be careful handing out the praise. The idea of adding a external
> signals and biases to crystal detectors was an old trick from the
> 1920s. No one really knew what was going on, and no one really used
> this technology, simply because perf
> > This is a bit interesting in that Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley are
> > credited in the popular press as having invented the transistor.
> > However, that was a bit overstated; they had to re-word their patent
> > application to state that they'd developed a "junction" transistor, when
> > a p
> On Mar 13, 2019, at 12:02 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> ...
> This is a bit interesting in that Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley are
> credited in the popular press as having invented the transistor.
> However, that was a bit overstated; they had to re-word their patent
> applicatio
On 3/12/19 5:59 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> That needed to say Half Word. The point I was making was you went
> down from 36 bits to 32 bits and that loss of word size made
> everything follow a similar architecture model between different
> computer manufactures as there is only a few ways to for
On 3/12/19 5:23 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>
>> On Mar 12, 2019, at 5:51 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk
>> wrote:
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>> ... I’ve written in my book on the History of the Microcomputer a
>> history of the processing chip as the timeline follows an
>> approximation of:
>>
>> Late *195
On 03/12/2019 07:23 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Mar 12, 2019, at 5:51 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
...
I’ve written in my book on the History of the Microcomputer a history of
the processing chip as the timeline follows an approximation of:
Late *1950*s – patent on integ
On 3/11/2019 10:29 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 03/11/2019 02:35 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
IBM 360 32 bits 16 word reg file - 16 bit word.
While some 360 models had a hardware architecture of 8, 16, or even 64
bits, all of the 360s (except the model 20, which was not really a 360)
had 16 32-bit r
> On Mar 12, 2019, at 5:51 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> ...
> I’ve written in my book on the History of the Microcomputer a history of
> the processing chip as the timeline follows an approximation of:
>
> Late *1950*s – patent on integrated circuit by Texas Instruments
>
>
Thanks for the info on chip made by Texas Instruments. It was used in a
pocket/plug-in calculator I had while working as a payroll clerk back in
the early 70s.
The link is: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/ti_cal-tech1.html
I’ve written in my book on the History of the Microcomputer a h
> On Mar 11, 2019, at 1:13 PM, Robert Feldman via cctalk
> wrote:
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>> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:18:26 -0400
>> From: Murray McCullough
>
>
>> Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel at texas
>> Instruments
>
> Merryman died on February 27.
>
> From the New York Time
>Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:18:26 -0400
>From: Murray McCullough
>Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel at texas
>Instruments
Merryman died on February 27.
>From the New York Times (March 7, 2019):
Jerry Merryman, Co-Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86
https://w
On 03/11/2019 02:35 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
IBM 360 32 bits 16 word reg file - 16 bit word.
While some 360 models had a hardware architecture of 8, 16,
or even 64 bits, all of the 360s (except the model 20, which
was not really a 360) had 16 32-bit registers as the program
saw it.
Jon
On 03/11/2019 04:49 AM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
> On 2019-Mar-10, at 3:59 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk 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
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> From: Brent Hilpert
>>> Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merrym
> From: Brent Hilpert
>>> 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 el
Talking of calculators, my first full time job was selling HP calculators
and Apple computers which was appropriate, but not necessary for my second
full time job as a calculator. Yes my job title was calculator, where I did
actuarial calculations on insurance products for variations.
So I went fr
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:50 AM Brent Hilpert via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 2019-Mar-10, at 5:16 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> > On 3/10/19 2:18 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
> >> Historians, though not all, credit this development as the
> >> beginning of the electro
On 2019-Mar-10, at 5:16 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> On 3/10/19 2:18 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
>> Historians, though not all, credit this development as the
>> beginning of the electronic-computing revolution that was truly underway by
>> the mid-70s.
>
> Scotty, more power to t
On 2019-Mar-10, at 3:59 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk 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
On 3/10/2019 9:11 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
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
I would say it was JUST too early to count as valid microprocessor. I
expect they all
On 3/10/2019 7:30 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
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 w
> On March 10, 2019 at 9:30 PM Guy Dunphy wrote:
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> At 06:59 PM 10/03/2019 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >> On March 10, 2019 at 6:10 PM ben via cctalk wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/10/2019 3:18 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
> >> > Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van T
At 06:59 PM 10/03/2019 -0400, you wrote:
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>> On March 10, 2019 at 6:10 PM ben via cctalk 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 t
On 3/10/19 2:18 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
> Historians, though not all, credit this development as the
> beginning of the electronic-computing revolution that was truly underway by
> the mid-70s.
Scotty, more power to the Reality Distortion Field!
> On March 10, 2019 at 6:10 PM ben via cctalk wrote:
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>
> 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
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-compu
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. Vint
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