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"Hard to believe that Jack Kilby's unsightly concoction (pictured above) turned 50 yesterday, but it's true. Half a century ago, Mr. Kilby crafted the integrated circuit, which ended up having a monumental impact on taking computers from warehouse-sized to, well, not-warehouse-sized. As the story goes, the very first microchip was demonstrated on the 12th of September in 1958, and it passed its first test: \"producing a sine wave on an oscilloscope screen.\" Safe to say we all know how things progressed from there. Here's to you, IC -- and here's to 50 more.[Via MAKE]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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