30 Oct
2015
30 Oct
'15
5:50 p.m.
On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Murray McCullough
<c.murray.mccullough at gmail.com> wrote:
What is the role played by the U.S. gov. in helping to create the
microcomputer? What money & expertise did it provide?
Interesting question. Supposedly some of the impetus for integrated circuits came from
the space program -- but I think the first ones (at TI) predate that. And the first
microcomputer, the Intel 4004, was as far as I remember built to be the engine of a
calculator.
So chances are that various government programs helped at the margins, but were not
drivers.
paul