Chuckle, chuckle, snort.
Chuck Norcutt
Walt Wayman wrote:
> Great care should be taken when challenging an old journalist. We have our
> sources and our methods. Like it has been said, never pick an argument
> with folks who buy ink by the barrel. I would add to that warning, beware
> of those who bullshit, or used to, for a living. Here, just like on Fox
> News, is the truth of the matter:
>
> The engineer who said this was Ray D. Ayetor, who had been assigned to
> develop a more wear-resistant material for the ping-pong ball type-head
> thingies used in the Selectric typewriters. Kept in the dark regarding
> more advanced technology, Ray was unaware of the potential use of the
> microchip and mistook it for a part of the keyboard mechanism of the
> Selectric. He died in 1977 just two days before winning the Illinois
> lottery, much to the relief of his widow, who collected the winnings and
> moved to Newark to live with her mother, where she erected a high stone
> fence, topped with concertina wire, around their two-bedroom, four-bath
> bungalow. She has been a recluse ever since, though it is said she buys
> and sells lots of stuff on e-Bay, including some OM gear, doing much of it
> in her late husband’s name.
>
> Walt, who lies only when convenient or fun
>
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>>Ah, but you've hit a sore spot for an IBM retiree. This is someone's
>
> idea of a joke but hardly accurate. In particular, the year is not well
> chosen since it was 1968 that IBM introduced MST (Monolithic Systems
> Technology) which was IBM's first truly integrated ciruitry where there
> were more than a few circuits on a chip. For a photo and text see the
> next to last paragraph on this page:
> <http://www.thegalleryofoldiron.com/MISC.HTM>
>
> And from the Texas Instruments integrated circuits collection at the
> Smithsonian you can see that IBM and TI were working closely together on
> manufacturing technology since the early 60's with IBM teaching TI how
> to build the stuff. <http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/texas/t_028.htm>
>
> TI and Fairchild are given the honor of having conceived of the
> integrated circuit in 1958. But it was another 10 years before anybody
> figured out how to build and package this stuff with anything other than
> a trivial number of circuits. The Intel 4004 (the first real processor
> on a chip) didn't come about until 1971.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Walt Wayman wrote:
>
>
>>An IBM engineer in 1968, referring to the microchip: "But what is it good
>
> for?"
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