25 microchips that shook the world

[TonyD]

That would be an interesting list to read :)

There's another follow on story My Favorite Chip where various industry personalities name their favorite and why they like it.

[shawn]

Am2900 bit-slice, Mem's, AL1...
A lot of people have a lot of different favorates.
I wish the industry could have realized the Transputer in a bigger way.
What archectecture would Alan Turing like, I wonder...
What was the germ of his machine . How did he approach the tape?
It will take me the rest of my life to fully apreciate that cool operator...

[dave]

You can see what Alan Turing proposed as a practical machine.

http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archiv ... 1-001.html

This report was written in 1945 and contains most of the ideas in computer design and programming up to 1960.

There are many other interesting things in the turing archive ...

[leon_heller]

The English Electric DEUCE was based on Turing's ACE, described in that paper. When I joined English Electric, Kidsgrove, in 1961, as a student apprentice, they still had an operational DEUCE. It was donated to a university a few months later.

[shawn]

Dave, thanks a real lot, bookmarked that, and will read ASAP. Tonite!
I'll be posting on some rather odd question about said early archetectures.
There so much missing or blurred over in the history of computing, intentional
or not. It only spurr's my curriosity that much more...
Atanasoff was born in my hometown, Hamilton.
Colgate had A PDP10, I lived in the E-box.
Thats how I got it. PIP and TECO.

[TonyD]

I thought it would interesting to find out are other peoples favourite microchips and why, so I've started a new thread What is your favourite microchip and why?

[shawn]

Yes, there are so many good architeture's and lot's of experienced people and pioneers here.
I'm also courius about a cpu's architetures plus hybrib solutions from the past, perhaps another thread.