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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

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Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.

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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

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They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

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I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 8th, 1923

Died: June 20th, 2005

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