50 years of the microprocessor
It’s still pretty amazing to think that when astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, he got there with a navigational computer having less processing power than an Arduino Uno makerboard. However, that same year, a Japanese business machines maker and a fledgling U.S. chipmaker would embark on a project that revolutionised computing forever – the Intel 4004 CPU.
Just another calculator?
During the 1960s, if you coveted the latest in technology, you had an all-electronic calculator. Forget adding machines and slide rules – the calculator was the ‘iPhone 12 Pro’ of the day and many well-known big-name brands were churning
