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To: Tony Viola who wrote (135180)	5/15/2001 10:29:44 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I don't remember their being an 1102 Tony Viola wrote: "Windsock, ><Remember the first commercial DRAM, the Intel 4004? It was 1 KB. "The 1103, at 1K was the first Intel DRAM that sold in appreciable quantities. The 1102 was 512, I think, 1101, if there was one, maybe 256 bit. The 4004 was the very first (commercial) microprocessor, introduced in 1971. Back to DRAMs, AMS also had a 1K, the 6002." I believe the 1101 was an SRAM, not a DRAM I could be wrong on this, however. I don't recall there being an 1102. The 1101 and 1103 (and the big seller, the 1103A), yes, but I think Intel skipped the 512-bit device. Anyone have a 1972-era product catalog? If an 1102 was marketed, it wasn't nearly as famous as the 1101 and 1103 devices were. (I just checked the Chip Directory, mirror.nol.at, and both the 1101 and 1103 are listed, but no mention of an 1192.) By the way, it's confusing when memory sizes for systems, usually expressed in KB or MB or GB, for kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, are used in the same breath with _device_ sizes, usually expressed as kilobits, megabits, etc. The 1K RAM was a 1 kilobit RAM. (1024 bits, of course.) Some folks write "Kb" to signify kilobits and "KB" for kilobytes. Still, I agree with Windsock that it's been a helluva ride. --Tim May