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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor. The processor debuted with 42 million transistors and circuit lines of 0.18 microns, 29 years after Intel's first microprocessor. The Intel® Pentium® 4 processor's initial speed was...
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® Celeron® processor. Continuing Intel's strategy of developing processors for specific market segments, the Intel® Celeron® processor was designed for the value PC market segment. First integrated L2 cache...
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 80286 processor. The Intel 286, originally known as the 80286, was the first Intel processor that could run all the software written for its predecessor. This software compatibility remains a hallmark of...
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 8088 processor. A pivotal sale to IBM's new personal computer division made the 8088 the brains of IBM's new hit product--the IBM PC. The 8088's success propelled Intel into the ranks of the Fortune 500, and...
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 8086 microprocessor. Chalk the 8086 design up to Intel’s competitive paranoia. ”Because of the success of Zilog’s 8-bit processor, we were sure they were cooking up some super processors for 16 bits...
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 8008 microprocessor. The 8008 was twice as powerful as the 4004. A 1974 article in Radio Electronics referred to a device called the Mark-8 which used the 8008. The Mark-8 is known as one of the first...
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 4004 microprocessor. The 4004 was Intel's first microprocessor. This breakthrough invention powered the Busicom calculator and paved the way for embedding intelligence in inanimate objects as well as the...
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 8080 microprocessor. The 8080 became the brains of the first personal computer--the Altair, allegedly named for a destination of the Starship Enterprise from the Star Trek television show. Computer hobbyists...
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel486™ microprocessor. The 486s are very similar to their immediate predecessor, the Intel 80386DX. The main differences are that the 486 has an optimised instruction set, has an on-chip unified instruction...
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Enlarged color photograph of the Intel386™ microprocessor. The Intel386™ microprocessor featured 275,000 transistors--more than 100 times as many as the original 4004. It was a Intel’s first 32-bit chip.
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Color postcard of "The Old Stone Mill" -- erected 1850. First building in Los Gatos, California. Forbes Mill was built in 1854 along the banks of Los Gatos Creek by James Alexander Forbes. The town of Los Gatos later grew up around it. ...
This instrument allowed water to be heated to a temperature higher than boiling point at atmospheric pressure, resulting in considerably high pressure inside. Papin designed a model of a digester in 1680 that allowed a piston inside a cylinder to...
A hydrometer measures the specific gravity of a liquid relative to water. Nicolson's hydrometer differs from other hydrometers in being totally submerged in use.
In this demonstration apparatus, water pours into the top section of the central rotor, pivoting freely about its axis. The two pipes projecting from the bottomof the rotor are closed at the end but with a rearward-facing hole. The rotor spins as...
"This unique piece of apparatus uses Lissajous figures to show that the ratio of the frequency ratios in a diatonic scale are ratios of small numbers. On the side is an air-driven vibrating reed with a small mirror attached to its free end....
