How do you pronounce 4004 or 4040?

[wepwawet]

For me as a german that does not know any other collector in private life and has not spoken to anyone it is an old question.

I say "Vier-null-null-vier" what is similar to "Four-o-o-four"
and "Vierzig-vierzig" what means "Fourty-fourty"
In the old Intel naming scheme I speak the first two digits as a number and then - if number three is o, two digits.
Samples: 4201: "Zweiundvierzig-null-eins" or "fourtytwo-o-one"
but 2114: "Einundzwanzig-vierzehn" or "twentyone-fourteen"

Does anyone say "fourthousandfour" or "foutry-o-four" ...?

Hm, do you say "o" or "zero" when you mean the number 0?

cheers, Michael

[fRaSsL]

Ich sag viertausendvier zu meinen ganzen 4004ern

I pronounce four thousand four to my huge collection of 4004

[wepwawet]

Und schon der erste Unterschied:-)
So we have the first different version...

What about single names for each one, like "Earl Gray"?
No, please not!

[CPUShack]

I say "fourty-o-four" or if it has grey traces 'danglottamoney'

[chipcollector]

I pronounce them "Four zero zero four" and "Zero four + thirty six, fourty"

[wepwawet]

hm, 59 views and three replies

I can speak, can you

[Marcin]

When I ask for these CPUs I say :
4004 - "four zero zero four"
8008 - eight zero zero eight
8080 - eight zero eight zero
8086 - eight zero eight six

[Borris70]

funny. everybody uses different words.

i say (but all in german)

4004 white: fourthousend-four
4004 grey traces: the holy grale
4040: forty-forty
8008: eightthousend-eight
8085: eighty-eightyfive
80186: eighty-one-eightysix
6502: sixtyfive-zero-two

[wepwawet]

Haha, that's what I expected.
We all read but rarely speak and so everybody has his own way...
some more:
Z-eighty
sixthousandeighthundred
sixtyeightthousand
four-eightysix

[CPUShack]

sixty eight hundred
and sixty eight k here
and eighty eighty six
eighty eighty
sixty five o two

[wepwawet]

[CPUShack]

[wepwawet]

btw, in memoriam the other thread:

eighty-one-eightyseven
or eighty-C-one-eightyseven

[sammyc]

*SIIIIGH***


Being the ONLY UK ENGLISHMAN, on the topic... I feel I am best equipped to answer the question

4004, pronounced: four double o four
4040, pronounced: fourty fourty
8008, pronounced: eight o o eight
8088, pronounced: eight o eight eight


Hope that clear things up

[wepwawet]

Hmmm, 4004 different from 8008???
Is that consequent?

btw, I didn't ask for what is right, I asked about your versions:-)

If I want the original version I have to ask the old Intel guys...