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06/23/2005 Entry: "Kirby"

This week the Big User in the Sky pushed CTRL + ALT + DEL on Jack St. Clair Kilby, inventor of the microchip. TI

He and his team were able to integrate thousands of semiconductor transistors into a teeny tiny little chip, thus finding a feasible alternative to tubes and relays and leading us onto a great new era of all sorts of boolean tomfoolery.