On Friday July 11th, Ted Hoff told the story of how he invented the microprocessor. On Friday July 18th, Busicom’s Masatoshi Shima, told how he designed it. On Friday July 25th, Federico Faggin ...
A recent correspondent objected to my assertion that all NASA has ever given us -- other than some bodies and scrap metal strewn over the landscape -- is “Tang!” and a toilet plunger. The writer ...
When a Japanese calculator company called Busicom asked Intel to make chips for a calculator it was not seen as a big deal. “The Busicom people arrived on a Friday (June 20th 1969). That night I went ...
Today marks the anniversary of the launch of the Xbox and Microsoft's Halo video game a decade ago, as we've chronicled in our coverage. But those launches would never have happened without today's ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. If not for Ted Hoff's curiosity, we'd all be using typewriters to text ...
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