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"It was originally designed for traffic lights and vending machines, whereas it ended up fueling the computer revolution" ... I thought silicon chips/cpus were
by guiomie 13y ago
"It was originally designed for traffic lights and vending machines, whereas it ended up fueling the computer revolution" ... I thought silicon chips/cpus were designed for military purpose initially, such as radars ?
- tonydiv 13y agoNot from what I've read, but I could be wrong: "The microprocessors that made the microcomputer possible had originally been developed to run traffic lights and vending machines. They had never been intended to power computers. The first entrepreneurs to attempt this were laughed at; the computers they had created looked hardly worthy of the name--they were so small and could do so little. But they caught on with just enough people for whom they saved time, and slowly, the idea took off." http://www.fastcompany.com/3002810/aha-moments-made-paul-grahams-y-combinator-possible http://www.fastcompany.com/3002810/aha-moments-made-paul-gra...