Thanks Jack, with out you I wouldn’t have a job. Nor would I have cell phones, tv’s or just about anything else electronic imaginable.
I’m just glad I actually took the time to meet you in person years ago. And thank you for actually taking the time to see the lilttle people such as me. You were a busy man, you didn’t have to do that, but you did it anyway.
You sir are a legend.
Jack Kilby obit.
Kilby with patent links at Wiki.
I wouldn’t have passed freshman chemistry without him.
I’m a little young to have done this but I don’t think I’d much care for wirewrapping or vacuum tubes. Except Nixie tubes. Those are still cool.
[quote=EE Times]
Jack St. Clair Kilby, retired TI engineer and acknowledged as the first inventor of the integrated circuit, passed away in Dallas Monday (June 20) after a brief battle with cancer. He was 81.
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Funeral services will be held on the head of a pin.
Preliminary autopsy report indicates that the magic blue smoke got out.