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Some history

Some history (cont'd)

Vacuum tubes

Vacuum tubes (cont'd)

Vacuum tubes (cont'd)

Transistors

Transistors (cont'd)

Magnetic cores

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Chips (cont'd)

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Computers

Computers (cont'd)

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Computers (cont'd)

Future trends

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Communication trends

The Grid

The Grid (cont'd)

The Grid (cont'd)

The Grid (cont'd)

Chips

Jack Kilby's first IC

The integrated circuit was developed in 1958. The first one contained a two transistors on a single silicon chip.

Early commercial IC's contained a few transistors, resistors and capacitors on one chip.

Digital computers are ‘at heart, only carefully polluted sand’
N. Holmes, Computer 35(5): 112, 2002

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