[blam]

The Chip That Jack Built

The picture below is a picture of the original chip that Jack built and (presumably) will continue to be held by Texas Instruments:

[jsanders2001]

And a wealthy elite liberal will buy it and write it off as an operating expense like office equipment of course and the IRS won’t question it one bit if he’s an Obama donor..

[skeeter]

I used to work at the old Sun HQ, which was across the street from the little building where Robert Noyce independently invented the first commercially practical IC a few months after Kilby's.

I was sorry to learn the building has since been been torn down.

[Gay State Conservative]

My Dad used to travel routinely to Dallas during the 60’s to establish specs for transistors and ICs from TI to be placed into Polaroid cameras.

[Verginius Rufus]

One of the lesser-known consequences of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Before that they used to make segregated circuits.