Microcomputer Intel Intellec 4 - 4004 microprocessor

[lcfgroup]

We are in the Appalachian Music community of Floyd Virginia - I am also making a small museum display of some of my computers available to the public in the Village Green. We are on the "Blue Ridge Parkway" & " The Crooked Road - Virginia's Heritage Music Trail" . A lot of good things here - drop in and see us sometime. Also if you are biker this is a big stop over for riders on the Blue Ridge Parkway - Dave

[lcfgroup]

We have Apple 1 Microcomputers in LCF Group - you can see all 4 in our LCF Group collection at Mike Willegal's ' Apple 1 Registry ' - Folks ask how did you ever get 4 Apple 1's - short answer - I have been involved in teaching, using, collecting & writing about computers at Virginia Tech & other places for over 54 years - started at Remington Rand Univac company in 1967 - I have advertised in various trade magazines ' wanted pre1980 microcomputers for historical collection' for past 40 yrs

[lcfgroup]

Just a note that the 4004 was not the first microprocessor chip -- it is now reported that the AL-1 chip is acknowledged as the first commercial microprocessor. The 4004 would have been the first Intel commercial processor . Dave - the computer collector

[29riteshkakkar]

how to use it??

[lcfgroup]

@29riteshkakkar Thanks for comment - it was hard to use in those day software was very primitive and much was written in machine code - the 4004 being only 4 bit it took a lot of steps of code to do anything useful. This machine was designed to aid other designers and developers as a tool to test software and hardware that used the 4004. For more info about my interest in microcomputer history and collecting - see ourcyberbusiness-net and follow at twitter-com./computerhobby

[lcfgroup]

@29riteshkakkar Good idea to learn from the beginning. What is your background now and where are you located. This history of microcomputers and the folks involved is very interesting.

[gilcarrick]

For a more complete story see the Wikipedia article on Microprocessors. The Four Phase AL1 was the first commercially available microprocessor.

[lcfgroup]

@gilcarrick Thanks Gil - Wikipedia is a great resource for information.

[mysciencenow]

instructions are a good thing