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When did integrated circuits first enter your life?

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NivagSwerdna:

--- Quote from: JohnPen on September 18, 2020, 11:10:01 am ---Henry's radio
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I lived in a rural location the SW but once a year would have a family trip to London.... I remember the trips to Henry's on the Edgeware road... in fact... I remember a particular trip where we went clutching a copy of ETI read to get the parts for the Metal Detector project.... ah nostalgia!

JohnPen:
Valve day memories included Selenium rectifiers rather bulky :)

Rerouter:
Too young to have seen the transition, so taken literally, at the age of 6 when I stood on an upside down dip package for some 74 series logic IC that my neighbor was using in a project,

NiHaoMike:
First one I have seen was the RAM upgrade (a mere 4MB!) for the family computer, first one I experimented with was a 4011 in a digital logic education kit.

Mecanix:
First ever IC Love Story for me was an Arduino roughly 10 years ago (given to me by someone who've had no idea what it was). It had me loading up its IDE and blinking its onboard LED at 1Hz. I nearly past out of boredom learning that and watching it blinking I've never touched it ever again. It was instantly sent on to the Great Rubbish Bin.

Fast fw in time; I now have an inventory of roughly 60~70 different kind of ICs that were recently brought in to prototype with :/

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