Happy 38th birthday to the Microproccessor

[Platapus]

On 15 November 1971, Intel released their Intel 4004 chip, the worlds first commercial microprocessor (entire CPU on one chip).

Maximum clock speed 740 Khz

There is a runner up for the first Microprocessor that being the MP944 made by American Microsystems. The MP944 was used on the F-14 and was classified for many years. So it is difficult to determine exactly when the MP944 came out.

But in either case, Happy Birthday Microprocessors.

You have come a long way baby!! :salute:

[kiwi_2005]

Yep and in Sept 09 The internet turned 40yrs old.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_13235730?source=most_emailed


Few were paying attention back on Sept. 2, 1969, when about 20 people gathered in Kleinrock's lab at UCLA to watch as two bulky computers passed meaningless test data through a 15-foot gray cable.
That was the beginning of the fledgling Arpanet network. Stanford Research Institute joined a month later, and UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah did by year's end.
The 1970s brought e-mail and the TCP/IP communications protocols, which allowed multiple networks to connect — and formed the Internet. The '80s gave birth to an addressing system with suffixes like ".com" and ".org" in widespread use today.

[Jimbuna]

Yep, I remember young Microprocessor well....went out with they're mother many years ago, Miss Abacus :O:

[bookworm_020]

Still doesn't make me a cup of coffee in the morning, but happy birthday anyway!:salute: