Ted Hoff describes how he contributed to the improved 1103 circuit design and how its design differed from logic circuits. Technical details of the re-design are explained.
Dave House then relates his experiences as an Intel 1K DRAM customer at Micro Data (he was the CPU designer of their 3200 minicomputer) and his first few months at Intel visiting their mainframe computer customers because the 1103 didn’t work. The issues and intricacies of memory system design with the 1103 are revealed along with its use as a control memory for mainframe CPUs (in addition to being a core memory replacement for read/write computer storage).
[Description by Alan Weissberger]
The above video was captured at the IEEE-CNSV October 1st panel, Intel’s Transition to Success: From Memory to the Microprocessor. For the full description, click here.