[lit-ideas] Re: C'mon people now - or almost rhyming

Simon wrote
There's an urban myth I've heard that the first microchips were designed by electronics experts on LSD. Which perhaps suggests that while such drugs may not have been the best aid in writing songs, they did have other uses.
The microchip was invented almost simultaneously but independently by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor. The both were granted patents in 1959. If they were on acid it would be an interesting coincidence, but who knows...? 

Robert Paul
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