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“The first network hung up so the whole world could log on.”
“It quadrupled memory capacity and quadrupled the future along with it.”
The Intel 8080 was an 8-bit microprocessor released by Intel in April 1974, successor to the 8008 — though the family resemblance was mostly spiritual, since it wasn't binary compatible. It was originally destined for embedded life in calculators, cash registers, terminals, and industrial robots, but it wandered far beyond that. Along the way it became a popular processor across a huge range of devices and helped lau
Its success came from listening: Federico Faggin and others at Intel took customer feedback about the 8008's shortcomings and built a 40-pin chip with NMOS speed, TTL compatibility, an expanded instruction set, and a full 16-bit address bus that could reach 64 KB of memory. It found its way into early personal computers and, eventually, into retirement in 1990. Not murdered, just done — the chip that got the whole th
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“The first network hung up so the whole world could log on.”
“Gone in 1990, remembered longer.”
“First Mac to see in color — and it never stopped looking good.”