Intel 4004 microprocessor oral history panel (2007)

Like most history, things get simplified and written from the perspective of the victorious over time. If Intel wasn't a vast corporation today we would be reading about some other late-60's LSI project as the genesis of the modern era, I'm sure.

For example these guys : http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/microprocessor_history.htm Interesting to read in the CHM article that Hal Feeney had worked at GI in LA. He also talks about military uses of MOS in the 60's.

Or this guy : http://firstmicroprocessor.com/documents/ap1-26-97.pdf

I recommend the youtube channel for the Computer History Museum.. they post at least one interview/Oral history every week or so.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHDr4RtxwA1KqKGwxgdK4Vg

The first time I heard of the Computer history museum was when I was looking for a new credit union, and one of the ways to get a membership was to sign up for the CHM. Even though I don't use that credit union anymore, I keep renewing my yearly Computer History membership because they really are preserving parts of history that might otherwise just be lost.

On the 8008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080814215757/http://www.comput...

Incredible article. The slow realization of what they've created as they start implementing internal projects with this "limited use" microprocessor, it reminds me very much of articles about the creation of LISP.