Intel Releases 4004 Microprocessor Schematics

mcpublic writes, "Intel is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Intel 4004, their very first microprocessor, by releasing the chip's schematics, maskworks, and users manual. This historic revelation was championed by Tim McNerney, who designed the Intel Museum's newest interactive exhibit. Opening on November 15th, the exhibit will feature a fully functional, 130x scale replica of the 4004 microprocessor running the very first software written for the 4004. To create a giant Busicom 141-PF calculator for the museum, 'digital archaeologists' first had to reverse-engineer the 4004 schematics and the Busicom software. Their re-drawn and verified schematics plus an animated 4004 simulator written in Java are available at the team's unofficial 4004 web site. Digital copies of the original Intel engineering documents are available by request from the Intel Corporate Archives. Intel first announced their 2,300-transistor 'micro-programmable computer on a chip' in Electronic News on November 15, 1971, proclaiming 'a new era of integrated electronics.' Who would have guessed how right they would prove to be?"

Comments

Re:Does it run Linux?

[gadzook33]

No, no, it's fine. You just need to cross compile with ARCH=4004; OPTIMIZE_FOR_CPU=4004; STRIP_EVERYTHING_EXCEPT_RESET_INCLUDING_THE_KERNEL =true.

Re:Digital archaeologists

[msobkow]

Before DivX pr0n there was MJPEG pr0n.

Before MJPEG pr0n there was JPEG pr0n.

Before JPEG pr0n there was bitmap pr0n.

Before bitmap pr0n there was ASCII art pr0n.

Before that, some weirdo was convinced that two LED's looked like nipples...

*g*

Re:Does it run Linux?

[mode13]

I can see it now:

From forums.gentoo.org / Architectures & Platforms / Gentoo on 4004 ...

Yea, I just did a stage 1 install, it took 12865 hours but the binaries are TOTALLY optimized!

LED porn?

[Dion]

Like this?

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/circuits-discover- each-other-024002.php