Computers are all around us, and for most of us, it has always been that way. But let’s travel back in time to a different era, to a completely different generation, to the birth of the first integrated circuit. The time is early 1960’s. The era of the computer was ushered in with the birth of the first commercially available silicon based Integrated Circuit, from the Fairchild Corporation. Presently, microprocessors (or integrated circuits) are cheap enough so that anyone can purchase them at a reasonable price. Back at

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