Food for thought if you, like me, have a setting in which alternate computing mechanisms are under development.

Originally shared by HACKADAY

As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. It may surprise you that the microchip that we all know and love today was far from an obvious idea. Some of the paths that were being explored back then to cram more components into a smaller area seem odd now. But…

http://hackaday.com/2017/11/07/how-the-integrated-circuit-came-to-be/