Intel 8008-1 Microcomputer Board
date: label: date made
content: 1973
name: label: maker
content: Intel Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This blue printed circuit board is labeled a "CPU MODULE," that is to say it was designed for use as the central processing unit of a microcomputer. It has an array of electronic parts, one of which is labeled on a gold sticker: 8008-1 (/) 89331. The 8008 was the world's first 8-bit programmable microprocessor, a successor to Intel's 4004 with a somewhat different origin. Envisioned as a product that could be embedded in a range of electronic instruments, the 8008-1 it would be succeeded by a range of faster, more compact chips that came to be best known as parts of microcomputers.
label: Description
content: A mark on the circult board reads: intel (/) 1973 imm8-82. Another mark reads: MADE (/) IN (/) USA.
label: Description
content: Compare 1991.0891.16 and 1991.0891.17. They are very similar but not identical.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Titus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0891.17
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0891.17
label: accession number
content: 1991.0891
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Board
label: Object Name
content: circuit board
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 in x 6 1/4 in; 1.27 cm x 20.32 cm x 15.875 cm