[sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "phillip m gallo" <philgallo at attglobal.net>
Subject: RE: [sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:01:57 -0800
Message-ID: <000401c3e795$d39979e0$0500a8c0 at net.sbcglobal.net>

> Make that the MCS-4004 although as noted "i4004" "i8085" was popular
> intel-ification of their part numbers but not found in their data
> sheets.

You mean to say MCS 4 as the "family name". Later they went for stuff like
iAPX 88/10 (bare 8088 with no extention-chips, so really like a PDP-11 style of
numbering).

Naturally there where a number of different ways it was written on the chip:
http://www.itofamily.com/ito/collections/legend/i4004/

As for i4004 versus other things... you're right, that happend later, but I
have seen it in use if my memory serves me right...

> As a side note, here's a ref showing Federico Faggin's initials on the
> die of the i400...err ... MSC-4004.
> 
> http://www.intel4004.com/sign.htm

Thanks for the link. I should have a 4040 lying around here somewhere... I did
used to have a board with it... maybe time to hack a 4-bitter...

Cheers,
Magnus