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The Early History of the Microcontroller - Part 1

Gary Boone, who worked in the Texas Instruments (TI) MOS Department, devised the first chip that can be called a microcontroller because he was becoming bored with his job and in trouble with his family. He’d joined TI in 1969 just when calculator chips were getting to be big business. During the 1960s, electronic calculators…

The game changer Philip Oliver still remembers the day in 1981 when his world changed. He and his twin brother, Andrew, were 13 when their older brother arrived at their home in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, with a brand-new Sinclair ZX81. “It was like he’d arrived with a portal into a different world,” remembers Philip, who was fascinated at the […]

Inventor of ZX Spectrum, Sinclair C5 electric vehicle, and Sinclair Executive pocket calculator dies after a long illness

There were some good points made in a lengthy comment made by scott livingston, the key sinclair executive. but he also failed to address some of the qualms of his own perspective employees and some of his current employees, including anchors who are wondering why was i forced to make this commentary? why now? why in the midst of this wrangling with the justice department and theyre certainly not helped in the slightest by the coincidence of the presidents intrusion in this and his sort of inter...