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My pick from the archive is "Now the Chips are Down", an eerily prescient 1978 documentary about what was then called the "silicon chip revolution". https://co
by jdietrich 8y ago
My pick from the archive is "Now the Chips are Down", an eerily prescient 1978 documentary about what was then called the "silicon chip revolution".
https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/d39fe5ab963b83309447394e46b6ad99 https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....
- leg100 8y agoI watched this on iPlayer a few months ago....if anything it seemed the revolution had already taken place, revealing just how big and sophisticated an industry it was by 1978, with the supply-chain already straddling the Pacific, chips designed and fabricated in the valley, and integrated and assembled in Asia.
- markb139 8y agoA 12 year old me watched this when it was broadcast. I knew after seeing the programme what I wanted do for a career. 40 years later I'm a software engineer - my teachers at school would be most suprised :)