Comments on: Happy Birthday the Integrated Circuit! https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/13/happy-birthday-the-integrated-1/ Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:58:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Spiv https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/13/happy-birthday-the-integrated-1/#comment-544689 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:58:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/13/happy-birthday-the-integrated-1/#comment-544689 Well I for one honored the day by working on a microcontroller circuit. And the subsequent day. Exciting weekend.

And yes, Greg, I programmed it from (sigh) a linux based pc.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/13/happy-birthday-the-integrated-1/#comment-544688 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:05:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/13/happy-birthday-the-integrated-1/#comment-544688 It IS 51. My blog’s built-in solid state technology birthday counter only goes to 50.

]]> By: djfav https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/13/happy-birthday-the-integrated-1/#comment-544687 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:35:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/13/happy-birthday-the-integrated-1/#comment-544687 Hooray for little black boxes!

]]> By: Mark Dow https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/13/happy-birthday-the-integrated-1/#comment-544686 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:21:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/13/happy-birthday-the-integrated-1/#comment-544686 Wikipedia has it as 51 years old.

“Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958 and successfully demonstrated the first working integrated circuit on September 12, 1958.”

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