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New technology doesn’t exist; everything was invented in the 60’s
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Alex Eisenhut:
How about Boolean logic?

"Boole's work and that of later logicians initially appeared to have no engineering uses. Claude Shannon attended a philosophy class at the University of Michigan which introduced him to Boole's studies. Shannon recognised that Boole's work could form the basis of mechanisms and processes in the real world and that it was therefore highly relevant. In 1937 Shannon went on to write a master's thesis, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which he showed how Boolean algebra could optimise the design of systems of electromechanical relays then used in telephone routing switches."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole
Kerlin:
Yer so we can all google that on the net, as I had when Ichecked the wiki page to get the date correct.  I have covered it, so what are you adding?
Point is it is not new just an adaption.

I was there I was trained,installed and repaired relay technology telephone exchanges and finished up using ARM for Avionics applications, so am well aware of what happened.
Other useless info anyone can google - the first telephone exchange was made by an undertaker called Strowger,  it was followed by Linefinder exchanges. I worked on those too.
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: nctnico on May 30, 2021, 07:15:46 pm ---Just the other day I was explaining to my youngest son that the majority of the math that drives our digital world has been invented before or soon after 1900.

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Try starting earlier, in the 18th century, and then carry on until the early 20th century and you're nearer the whole picture.

Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 (Not really a direct electronics connection, but you can't leave old Leonhard out.  :) )
Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749-1827
Joseph Fourier 1768-1830
Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777-1855
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 1784-1846
George Boole 1815-1864
Pafnuty Chebyshev 1821-1894
James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879
Gustav Kirchhoff 1824-1887

To name a very few of the 18th and 19th century Mathematicians whose work underpins electronics. When you look at the dates you realise that a lot of the higher level mathematics we rely on are really quite old.
Kerlin:
Yep right on there mister, that covers the thread topic of whats new since the 60s.
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Kerlin on June 01, 2021, 01:12:55 am ---Yep right on there mister, that covers the thread topic of whats new since the 60s.

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Who pissed in your chips?
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