The CPU Shack Museum

Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and Allied Signal).

AM1608 Chipset – 1979 – Synertek Back in 1974 the US Air Force saw the beginnings of a problem as the switch to digital microprocessor controls took over.

General Automation GA-16 – 266A01 RALU and 267A02 CROM General Automation was founded in 1968, just prior to the beginning of the microprocessor boom of the 1970’s.

Intel 60077 Unknown There are always interesting surprises when collecting CPUs, and anything really.

“Copy It” “Around the same time that Nikita Khrushchev declared his support for building Zelenograd.

It’s been a long while since I have been able to post/write, having a new baby apparently does that (I missed that in the datasheet).

In 1974 National Semiconductor introduced what is arguably the first 16-bit microprocessor (it had a 8-bit mode as well which was more efficient but could run 16-bits as well).

About a year ago Mats Danielson from Stockholm Sweden contacted the CPU Shack about an interesting project, documenting the history of Philips Data Systems, a former powerhouse of European computing.

In 1966, American engineer and inventor Robert Dennard invented dynamic RAM cells – single-transistor cells, each bit of information is stored in the form of an electric charge of a capacitor.

UAE Mars Hope Mission – IR Imager powered by LEON3FT In the 1990s the ESA began a project to develop their own, open source, easily usable processor for space applications.