{"id":369,"date":"2015-11-16T18:54:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-11-16T18:54:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:54:40","slug":"looking-back-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/2015\/11\/16\/looking-back-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back - Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw the 44th anniversary (15 Nov 1971) of the Intel 4004 microprocessor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intel.co.uk\/content\/dam\/www\/public\/us\/en\/images\/photography-business\/16x9\/60592-1971-4004-processor-16x9.jpg\/jcr:content\/renditions\/intel.web.480.270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This marked the first time a user-programmable microprocessor was available on the general market.<br \/>\nThese were snapped up, both by Universities to use in research and teaching; and by manufacturers in equipment. They were used in all sorts of products - from calculators, to computers; to gaming machines:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/intel_4004_011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/intel_4004_051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, you could get the processor to interface to a centralised computer system to display the output from the processor.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, we haven't got to do anything like as complicated these days to be able to programme a microcontroller, or to get a displayed output.<br \/>\nIndeed, most mobile 'phones are far more powerful than these microprocessors. Progress has been startling in 44 years!<\/p>\n<p>To find out more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.co.uk\/content\/www\/uk\/en\/history\/museum-story-of-intel-4004.html\">Story of Intel 4004<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw the 44th anniversary (15 Nov 1971) of the Intel 4004 microprocessor. This marked the first time a user-programmable microprocessor was available on the general market. These were snapped up, both by Universities to use in research and teaching;...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,3,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-interesting","category-technology"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}