 RCA/David
Sarnoff Research Center
NMAH Accession 1984.0120
1802 Microprocessor ca. 1974; and the transistorized ukulele
reference photographs
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Teal
NMAH Accession 1984.00126
ca. 1950 man-made silicon & germanium crystals produced at Bell Telephone
Laboratories. Transcription
with reference photographs.
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Adcock
NMAH Accession 1984.0040
1954 Regency Transistor Radio. Link to larger images, provided as reference
only. With reference
photographs.
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Danko
NMAH Accession 1998.0191 &
NMAH Archives Center #667
Stanislaus (Stan) Francis Danko was instrumental in the development and
invention of ©AUTO-SEMBLY; as well as the designer for flexible circuits,
and the solder dipped circuit process. Very early discrete transistors as
well as pre and post 1958 technology.
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ICE
- Integrated Circuit Engineering Corporation
NMAH Accession 1996.0089, 1996.3017
& NMAH Archives Center #600
A corporate 30 year history during the Cold War of training, consulting
expertise, design services, company files, litigation, photography, reverse
engineering, construction analysis, cross reference documentation, related
patents, and publications of and for the industry at large in the field
of integrated circuits and semiconductors.
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NCR
- National Cash Register
NMAH Accession 1990.0505, &
NMAH Registrar - Supporting Documentation -
The 5385 (date code 8311F) Small Computer System Interface -
SCSI - pronounced scuzzy. A new ANSI Standard
protocol chip which enabled such diverse devices as disks, magnetic tapes, printers, and scanners to share a common interface to
one or more computer systems that changed the face
of computing. A single chip with links to original documents, transcriptions, images, Polaroid photographs of the "white boards"
used in the design phase and an NCR corporate
story.
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Olson
NMAH Accession 1998.0061
NMAH Registrar - Supporting Documentation -
C. Marcus Olson , of Du Pont 1936 - 1971, has been credited as the discoverer of the process to make silicon really pure -
0.001 percent impurity or less - the basic raw
material of which are built the transistor and the integrated circuit and, indirectly, the computer and everything else made
from microelectronic elements. This collection of
documents has been literally transcribed with links to the originals and Dr. Olson’s single vial of pure silicon.
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EG&G
Reticon
NMAH Accession 1984.0062
Solid state image sensors - matrix, linear, smaller and longer arrays have
been designed for applications ranging from OCR, facsimile, spectrophotagraphy,
production lines and to outer space and the ocean depths. (Ever scan or
copy documents, images, etc. one of several important circuits accomplishes
that trick!) Review Integrated Filters - Arrays ca. 1975-79, self-scanned
solid state image sensors - one-dimensional row, or linear array, and a
two-dimensional matrix, or area array.
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AT&T
- BELL Laboratories
NMAH Accession 1984.0321
Digital integrated circuits from the processor of the SAGE (StrAtegic Ground
Environment) system, which was used to control the country's first anti-aircraft
defense, guided missile system.
Transcription.
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Synertek,
Inc.
NMAH Accession 1984.0154
The SY6502 (64 KB addressable memory, on-chip clock, 56 instructions)
Microprocessor of the SY6500 8-bit family.
Transcription
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IBM,
Corp.; James Watson Research Center
NMAH Accession 1984.0153
The 608 calculator announced 1955 was the first fully transistorized
calculator to be placed into production and sold commercially. Other
objects in this collection represent the technical progression of the
1960s-1980s.
"... the words calculator and computer
were used interchangeably ... the distinction between the terms is still
ambiguous." E.W.Pugh
March 12, 1984
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Schreiner
NMAH Archive Center #692
(conflict of numbering with
the Richard Adlard Collection)
Don C. Hoefler's Silicon Valley tabloid Microelectronics News, original
issues 1975 - 1986. Over 3,000 scanned pages
of Hoefler's original tabloid.
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Proctor-McGinnes
NMAH
Accession 2003.0029
Organic Semiconductor (I/O), 1973 a melanin (polyacetylenes)
bistable switch. The subsequent development of batteries is based on this
technology, and closely parallels that of main-line semiconductor physics.
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TI
- Texas Instruments
NMAH Accession 1984.0128, 1987.0487
& NMAH Archive Center #692
(corrected
archive number: 697)
Lists of objects, documentation and a variety of photographs. A collection
that traces the infancy and growth of integrated circuit technology at Texas
Instruments.
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ZILOG-Exxon
NMAH Accession 1984.0123
Collection record images of the Z80 Microprocessor. Reference only. This
object had been on exhibit in the 1980s within the Microelectronics subject
area at the National Museum of American History
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Chip
Talk
NMAH Reference
Past and somewhat recent vocabulary and acronyms used by the industry at large. This reference is not definitive, though
it may help you define several usages within
integrated circuit terminology.
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Chip
Art
NMAH Invisible Collection
An important though unusual aspect of the history of integrated circuit
technology is buried deep inside many chips, we call this chip art. You
will discover actual mask alignments, signatures and initials of the designer
or perhaps the engineer and the chip art of those who have left their mark
for posterity. Some are satirical quips and some are recognizable cartoon
characters we have all become familiar with. Included is a link to
our collaboration involving chip art with Dr. Michael W. Davidson of Florida
State University.
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Patents
NMAH Reference Collection
A comprehensive list linking to hundreds of patents with the cover graphic. We have literally transcribed the numbers,
names, inventors, filling dates, abstracts, defined
figures and citations exactly. This reference will aid you in matching your research to innovation and invention through the
developments within integrated circuit
technologies.
NOTE: The patent selection list is a very large file, 2MB.
Download time at 28.8 is approximately
2.275 minutes.
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People
Website Reference
We have listed personalities on this site represented in the history of integrated circuit technology in a single category
to make your research faster. Typically there is a
small biographical sketch and an image with related documentation. It is not a definitive list. We will include as many
personalities as possible as time permits.
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Pictures
Website Reference
This site's reference pictures, diagrams, x-rays, thumbnail selections,
and in some cases actual logbook pages in a single category to make your
research faster.
Remember - Copyright fair use rules must be recognized.
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STATE
OF THE ART Stan Augarten
Ticknor & Fields, New Haven and New York, 1983 - ISBN 0-89919-195-9
NMAH Reference Collection
One of many pictorial histories relating to the evolution and development
of the integrated circuit – most notably the microprocessor. Includes literal
transcriptions, actual pages and referenced images. This
book is provided for general reference. The National Museum of American
History and the Smithsonian Institution make no claims as to the accuracy
or completeness of this work.
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Oral
History J.C. McVickers
NMAH Reference Collection - NMAH
Archive Center - IN PROCESS
Due to the popularity of this particular history we are providing what we have prepared at this
time concerning the McVickers' material. The
publication: WESTINGHOUSE
TECHNOLOGY is provided for general reference.
The National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Institution
make no claims as to the accuracy or completeness of this work.
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Numbering
System
Website Reference
Defines how the objects and supporting documentation have been numbered. Includes contacts for scheduling appointments or
receiving copies of research
material.
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