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el_chamoon ZX81 Goes Nuclear – Game for Controlling a Nuclear Power Plant [video]

I'm impressed about how sharp the video output of the ZX-81 is here. Original is so wobbly and fuzzy. I suppose he is using some video output converter. That character set, bring back some good childhood memories of learning BASIC with 1Kb of RAM.

el_chamoon How Ted Hoff invented the first microprocessor

Indeed. And perhaps if he hadn't done that, Intel would have succeeded in leaving him out of this historic accomplishment, as things went south between them when Faggin quit and started Zilog.

His account of the events are recorded in his book Silicon https://siliconthebook.com/

el_chamoon How Ted Hoff invented the first microprocessor

Misleading title when the content says things like.

"Federico Faggin was assigned to design the chip, and in nine months came up with working prototypes"... "Faggin recalled that when he began implementing the microprocessor, Hoff seemed to have lost interest in the project, and rarely interacted with him."

Kind of having a title like: "How Steve Jobs invented the first commercial personal computer" and then inside the article saying actually "Steve Wozniak designed the motherboard, power supply, video interface...."