Ken Shirriff
How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits
http://files.righto.com/calculator/TI_calculator_simulator.html555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC
http://www.righto.com/2016/02/555-timer-teardown-inside-worlds-most.htmlXerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973.
How Steve Jobs got the ideas of GUI from XEROX
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This discussion reminded me of this YT video. its fascinating to see.
The Calculator Wars A video history of Japan's electronic industry (Part 3)
this is a fascinating history of Japan's calculator wars.
note the lab tests & thermal analysis of calculators at the time.
