Pioneers of computing

wrcooke at wrcooke.net wrcooke at wrcooke.net
Sun Mar 10 17:59:04 CDT 2019


> On March 10, 2019 at 6:10 PM ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/10/2019 3:18 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
> > Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel at texas
> > Instruments created an integrated circuit designed to replace the
> > calulator. Historians, though not all, credit this development as the
> > beginning of the electronic-computing revolution that was truly underway by
> > the mid-70s. Vintage/classic computing our hobby goes back that far as us
> > baby-boomers can attest to.
> > 
> > Happy computing all!
> So do have more information on said device?
> I am using a 2901 bit slice and that came out in 1975. :)
> Ben.

Here is a little bit of info on it:
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/ti_cal-tech1.html

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