8008 chips

[Dave McGuire]

On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel wrote:
>>   First, I know approximately nothing about old Intel chips, so  
>> forgive any incoherence.
>>   A friend of mine just came across a couple of Intel 8008 chips.  
>> Apparently, some ebay sellers think they're solid gold.
>
> It might be the first microprocessor, (i4004 is just a  
> controller...), but what really made the microcomputer possible is  
> the DRAM. Why dont people collect i1103's ?

   Not to be argumentative, but...What about the i4004 makes you  
think it's just a controller?  It seems rather microprocessor-like to  
me.

   Further, DRAMs have always had better density (one transistor and  
one capacitor per bit, versus, what, four transistors or so?) but I  
really don't think it's fair to suggest that microcomputers wouldn't  
have existed without them.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL