> From: Brent Hilpert
> - ca. 1970: The well-known story of the 4004 is that Busicom .. asked
> Intel to manufacture a set of ASIC LSI chips, of Busicom's design, for
> a new calculator. .. Hoff, who looked at the multiple chip designs and
> conceived instead of a software (fir
> From: Paul Koning
> Supposedly some of the impetus for integrated circuits came from the
> space program -- but I think the first ones (at TI) predate that.
"Digital Apollo" (pg. 125) says that Fairchild was first to ship
commercially, in 1961 ("Journey to the Moon" puts it in the f
On 2015-Oct-30, at 7:25 PM, william degnan wrote:
So chances are that various government programs helped at the margins,
but were not drivers.
(Think I got that attribution right...)
Well, one BIG thing that moved LSI forward was the VHSIC
project and others at DARPA. They funded a lot of w
On 2015-Oct-30, at 7:25 PM, william degnan wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2015 8:50 PM, "Paul Koning" wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Murray McCullough <
> c.murray.mccullo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What is the role played by the U.S. gov. in helping to create the
>>> microcomputer? What mone
On Oct 30, 2015 8:50 PM, "Paul Koning" wrote:
>
>
> > On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Murray McCullough <
c.murray.mccullo...@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.
> On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Murray McCullough
> 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 -
>
>
> Instead, we need to look at the relative involvements of academia,
guvmint, military, and industry (foreign and domestic). Like the
development of the internet (I do not see an "invention" nor a definable
creation date), there were several major forces that helped in their own
self-serving w
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Murray McCullough wrote:
What is the role played by the U.S. gov. in helping to create the
microcomputer? What money & expertise did it provide? “Steve Jobs the
Movie” doesn’t mention this nor have books written about him and
microcomputers in general mentioned this. Not ev
I can't answer that question directly... The new Steve Jobs movie,
while a good, entertaining Sorkin film, is great, but by not a history
of personal computing or even Apple.
If you haven't read Hackers by Steven Levy, I'd recommend that as a
fun starting point!
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:40 PM,
What is the role played by the U.S. gov. in helping to create the
microcomputer? What money & expertise did it provide? “Steve Jobs the
Movie” doesn’t mention this nor have books written about him and
microcomputers in general mentioned this. Not even mine! Do the
computers we love owe more to go
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