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On 3/3/2016 12:21 PM, Ceruzzi, Paul wrote:<br>
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1620 had very few logic circuits; it looked up sums in a
table instead. It’s nickname was “CADET”: “can’t add;
doesn’t even try!” There is a 1620 preserved at the
American Computer Museum in Bozeman, Montana. A few years
ago, Ted Hoff was given an award by the museum. As he
walked by the 1620, he remarked that had used one, and
that the machine’s creative use of memory in place of
logic convinced him that it would be possible to create a
processor on a sliver of silicon—what became the Intel
4004.
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Hoff and the 1620 influence on the 4004 is discussed at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Intel_4004_2/102658187.05.01.acc.pdf">http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Intel_4004_2/102658187.05.01.acc.pdf</a><br>
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