Ja tam nikde NASA nevidim. Vidite tam nekde NASA? Ja tam vidim armadu (letectvi, jak pise SEJDA), a zakaznicky sektor. Podotykam ze to byl clanek na webu Texas Instruments, ti o tomhle tematu 'shodou okolnosti' vi docela dost...
"Kilby had made a big breakthrough. But while the U.S. Air Force showed some interest in TI's integrated circuit, industry reacted skeptically. Indeed the IC and its relative merits "provided much of the entertainment at major technical meetings over the next few years," Kilby wrote.
The integrated circuit first won a place in the military market through programs such as the first computer using silicon chips for the Air Force in 1961 and the Minuteman Missile in 1962. Recognizing the need for a "demonstration product" to speed widespread use of the IC, Patrick E. Haggerty, former TI Chairman, challenged Kilby to design a calculator as powerful as the large, electro-mechanical desktop models of the day, but small enough to fit in a coat pocket. The resulting electronic hand-held calculator, of which Kilby is a co-inventor, successfully commercialized the integrated circuit."
The Chip That Jack Built Changed the Worldhttps://web.archive.org/web/20000418135808/http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackbuilt.shtml