Hi folks - I'm 80% through a project to create an intel4004 assembler and emulator written in Python (Pyntel4004). I have also purchased a retroshield4004 and a genuine intel4004 chip, which will go into my ArduinoMega. I plan to ensure that the code I assemble and run on the emulator is functionally identical to that code which is running on the actual chip.
Once done, I'll port the emulator to the Processing language running on the Arduino, test the code and we'll then have a functioning "4004" chip on an arduino nano or whatever......
Any interest or comments - please post here, or if you'd like to get involved in the project, please visit http://github.com/alshapton/pyntel4004
In 1971, Intel released the first Central Processing Unit (CPU), the Intel 4004. Developed by engineer Federico Faggin in 1971, the 4004 was the size of a fingernail, but had the same processing power as the first digital computer, ENIAC, which was the size of a entire room. The 4004 revolutionized computing, allowing the personal computer to become a reality, and forever changing the way people live their lives. The 4004 is the ancestor of all modern CPUs, from the Intel Core series, to AMD's Zen line, to Apple's M1.
Four years later, in 1975, a Altair 8800 computer would be shown off at the Homebrew Computer Club to a young Steve Jobs. He, along with fellow HBCC member Steve Wozniak, would go on to found Apple Computer. The Altair 8800 ran off the successor to the 4004, Intel's 8080 chip. The same year, an article in Popular Mechanics featuring the 8800 would inspire Bill Gates and Paul Allen to create a BASIC interpreter for the 8800, which would lead to the founding of Microsoft. Apple and Microsoft would go on to revolutionize the personal computer market, allowing for our modern world to come into being. Without the 4004, computer science would be very different.
Change my view.
Does anyone know about a decoration of the intel 4004, in which you can see the signals being sent throughout using lights. I saw about it somewhere but I can't find it again
I'm currently trying to build a 4004 CPU in a Game.
Issue is that all I'm finding is transistor level diagrams, which I can do absolutely nothing with.
Please help me here.
