That honor goes to Intel for the 4004. We pick up the tale with Robert ... One solution was to trade hardware, a sim board for example, to colleges in exchange for writing some support software.

The video begins by pointing out that the world’s first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (c ... He designed the custom 4004 circuit board, with its flashing VFDs and built-in display ...

Finally! The 4004 development board is a homebrew affair, and the emulator works well enough that an 8080 Tiny BASIC interpreter ran with very few changes to the source code. You can see it ...

The first microprocessor. Designed by Marcian E. "Ted" Hoff at Intel in 1971, the 4004 was a 4-bit, general-purpose CPU initially developed for the Japanese Busicom calculator. Running at a clock ...