In the latest episode of 'The Engines of Texanity,' Jack Kilby solves an engineering problem that would revolutionize modern computing.
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But transistors weren’t easy to install, having to be wired together and hand-soldered into place. A device with 1,000 transistors might require 10,000 soldered connections. One bad connection would make the entire device inoperable. Noyce revised Kilby’s design by making a silicon-based chip which eliminated exposed gold wiring. In July 1959, Noyce filed a patent for his own integrated circuit.
San Antonio-based Datapoint, founded by former NASA contractors Gus Roche and Phil Ray in 1968, applied the integrated circuit to Teletype machines, devices that were commonly used in corporate offices to send and receive typed messages. By installing alphabetic keyboards, screens to review messages and receivers to instantly and silently receive messages, the Datapoint 3300 terminal, as well as the upgraded, user-programmable Datapoint 2200, became a precursor to the personal computer.
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