COSMAC: The Long, True, and Never-ending Story of the World’s First CMOS Microprocessors, Part 2

<img width="300" height="270" src="https://www.eejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/RCA-Palm-Beach-Thumbnail-300x270.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.eejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/RCA-Palm-Beach-Thumbnail-300x270.jpg 300w, https://www.eejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/RCA-Palm-Beach-Thumbnail.jpg 661w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />After reading Edmund Callis Berkeley’s “Giant Brains or Machines that Think” shortly after it appeared in 1949, Joe Weisbecker decided he wanted to design computers but he was forced to wait for the better part of two decades to design one, despite getting a job with RCA’s mainframe computer division in 1956. Weisbecker was so [&#8230;]