> They had made the 8008 and 8080, but those were awkward and ungainly chips meant to power calculators, of all things. The 8008 was the (slower) single-chip i

> They had made the 8008 and 8080, but those were awkward and ungainly chips meant to power calculators, of all things. The 8008 was the (slower) single-chip implementation of the Datapoint 2200 terminal's processor. The DP 2200 was a serial terminal capable of running code on its own as a standalone machine, conceived in 1969 (originally as a drop-in replacement for the IBM 129 key punch), announced in 1970, and eventually introduced in 1971. Datapoint had commissioned the chip, but rejected the result, as it was slower than the discrete logic design, with rights for the chip-implementation remaining at Intel. This remarkable terminal has been with us ever since. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200