Yesterday at a party I met an old timer named Gene who had worked at Texas Instruments long ago enough to have known Jack Kilby, who co-invented the integrated circuit there while Robert Noyce did likewise at Fairchild Semiconductor.

Gene mentioned what a nice fellow Jack was.

(Gene had also managed engineers at Atari in the 1970s and ran semiconductor maker Monosil.)

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Jack Kilby - Wikipedia