17) Celebration Party for Publication of “4004, Passion of
My Youth “
Picture A: Book published by Shima
Picture B: Shima greeting in the celebration party for publication (click
to enlarge)
One of the developers of microprocessor, Masatoshi Shima published
a book titled, “Birth of Microprocessor
－ 4004, Passion of My Youth” from Iwanami Shoten, Publishers in August 1987.
To celebrate this publication, the party was held at a hotel in Tokyo in December
1987. There were nine promotors of the party, including Junichi Nishizawa,
Tadashi Sasaki and Matami Yasufuku. I was also one of the promotors.
Shima made a speech to nearly 400 participants by starting, “I have kept running
and running in these 10 years”, and continued, “The luck for me was that I
could keep moving to accumulate my own technology and expertise from 4 bit,
8 bit to 16 bit. To be honest, it was very tough to run ahead of others in
US. I always had to persuade others in order to let them understand my idea.”
He put all the participants in laughter by saying, “Thanks to these experiences,
I came to be a strong debater in English.”
Picture A is the cover page of the book published by Shima, and Picture B
is Shima greeting in the celebration party for publication
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