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The Kienzle 1140-20 Taxameter

The Kienzle 1140-20 Taxameter

This is a taxi fare meter from the 1970's, containing an Intel 4004 CPU ;)

Front image

If it works it would look something like this:

Four working meters

The electronics are three stacked boards. The CPU board contains the P4004 and some support chips like the P4002-1 (RAM/IO) and the P4308 (?):

cpu board

Connections / installation manual

The following was found on CPU-World, with lots of thanks to user wepwawet:

That document describes a 22 pin connector which my device does not have. The pinout seems to be:

pin Description
10 +12V perm
9 GND
8 Ignition +12V
7..2 Relais lamps
1 ?

Documentation

Last modified: 2025/04/20