As it got better at concocting multilayered devices from plastic resins, it moved on to computer circuit boards.
At age 44, a multimillionaire from 3Com, Metcalfe retired and knocked around the computer circuit as a pundit.
Jobs and Wozniak had built a kit for a pre-assembled computer circuit board, and roped in Wayne, a draftsman, to design a logo and write a manual.
My dad was an engineer and I spent countless hours tinkering with him on the DIY projects he had going on around our house, from using an oscilloscope and hand tools, to being allowed to drive the tractor, learning how to set spark plugs and change a timing belt, swapping out alternators, building a computer and soldering circuit paths on to an early motherboard .
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With the arrival of the integrated circuit and the computer, those financial transactions could occur not only globally, but almost instantaneously.
Here's hoping that the Supreme Court takes the opportunity presented by this "circuit split" to unplug the Ninth Circuit's computer ruling.
Using wires, pieces of metal sheeting and circuit boards, artist Peter McFarlane transforms old circuit boards into amazing computer-age fossils that somehow look prehistoric.
At HP's bright, pristine data center in Palo Alto, Calif. customers see 324 computer servers, each shrunk to a circuit board and nested in a stack with 30 to 40 others in 6-foot-6-inch-high cabinets.
And Benjamin Yates makes his unique coffee tables from recycled circuit boards, old VCRs and computer components.
The whole personal computer era can be seen as one giant triumph of dis-integration, as IBM's circuit-boards-to-boxes-to-software mainframe business gave way to the layered computer industry we see today: Intel making the electronics, Dell the boxes and Microsoft the software.
It was Davies' first time on a bike on the circuit, although he prepared for his bow by playing computer games.
Morean who built Jabil Circuit into one of the primary providers of electronic circuitry to the computer industry titans like Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and other.
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