So, this historic day has come. Today, July 18, Intel has turned exactly 50 years old. We are continuing the series of articles “Intel History Pages” dedicated to this significant event - on the occasion of the holiday, let's see archive photos showing significant moments in the life of the company.
At the end of the post - a small thematic quiz. Answer 6 questions correctly and get a prize from Intel!
A collective photo of the first 106 Intel employees, including co-founders Robert Noyce (front left) and Gordon Moore (front right), as well as the first hired employee Andy Grove (second row, far right).It was such a composition in 1969 that Intel began work at Mountain View, Middlefield Road, 365E.“There is more space here than we need,” said Gordon Moore in an interview with a local newspaper.However, it was enough for a while.
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Gordon Moore (with a shovel) and Robert Noyce (right) at the ceremony dedicated to the start of building the new Intel central office in Santa Clara, California.April 21, 1970
Intel's newly built office in Santa Clara, photo from the early 70s.It was the company's first own office - previously Intel rented premises in Mountain View.At the site of the building, there was a pear orchard earlier, part of it was preserved during construction and employees could feast on pears literally in the workplace.
The first version of the “rabbit suit” for clean rooms at Intel’s factories, developed in 1973.The rabbit costume later became one of the unofficial symbols of Intel.
Desktop calculator Busicom 141-PF.In 1970, Intel sold the rights to its first microprocessor 4004 to the Japanese company Busicom, which needed a processor for a new line of programmable calculators.Later, Intel bought the rights to 4004 for $ 60,000.
Rinkles dog, produced in the 80s by the Canadian company Ganz.The “intelligence” of the Rinkles was the 80C31BH controller from the MCS-51 family.The Intel MCS-51 was everywhere at that time, from aircraft to plush toys.The dog had a memory of 32 KB, had a vocabulary of 150 words and could play more than 2800 combinations of sounds.
The name for the Intel Pentium processor that appeared in 1992 was suggested by the company's employees who took part in the competition for the best name option.Among other offers were, for example, 586NOT!or Iamfastests.Pentium comes from the Greek Penta - five.18 people who offered similar options received $ 200 each.
And now - the promised quiz.
UPDATE.We already have a winner, willing to participate for my own pleasure - please contact us.
Question 1. How much did Intel pay for motel networks in 1968 for the rights to Intel?
$ 500
$ 5,000
$ 15,000
$ 50,000
Question 2. What did Intel's then-CEO Andy Grove allow for the comfort of the staff on the Intel campus in 1988?
Shower
Basketball rings
Vending machines
Cafeteria
Question 3. In what year did Intel hire its 1000th employee?
1969
1972
1980
1985
Question 4. Which Intel processor was inside the first IBM PC?
8088
8008
Pentium
4004
Question 5. In what year did Intel leave the DRAM market and focus on processors?
1980
1985
1990
1995
Question 6. Who of the OEMs first released the computer with Intel Inside in 2006?