A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1: Calculator Chips Came First (2022)
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#2Also loved this:
https://technicshistory.com/2024/11/03/a-craving-for-calcula...
Re: A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1: Calculator Chips Came First (2022)
#3May also be of interest on this topic:
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/tiny-computers-from-tex...
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#4May also be of interest on this topic: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/tiny-computers-from-tex...
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Re: A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1: Calculator Chips Came First (2022)
#5Also loved this: https://technicshistory.com/2024/11/03/a-craving-for-calcula...
very nice.
> As the number of components in circuits grew, the number of manufacturing steps also grew, and manufacturing error rates multiplied—a device with one thousand components, each of which a skilled worker could connect with 99.9% reliability, had a 63% chance of having at least one defective connection. The search for an end to this “tyranny of numbers” drove many research projects in the late 1950s, most of them funded by the various arms of the United States military, all of whom foresaw an unending appetite for ever-more-sophisticated electronics to control their weaponry and defense systems. The military-funded projects included “micro-modules” (individual components that would snap together like tinkertoys), “microcircuits” (wires and passive components etched onto a ceramic substrate into which active components, like transistors, could be connected), and “molecular electronics” (nanotechnology avant la lettre).[3]
Re: A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1: Calculator Chips Came First (2022)
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#7May also be of interest on this topic: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/tiny-computers-from-tex...
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Its possible to analyze documents or writings to determine if they written by the same person with a reasonable to good accuracy . Would be interesting to compare the suspect article against others by the same author. Unless Chat GPT has been told to write in the same style - not sure how that would work .....
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
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From the HM guidelines > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
It wasn't shallow, and I took the to read what someone else posted, and I'm reasonably sure it was AI Slop. So if it's AI Slop, is it really another person's work?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the HM guidelines > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
It wasn't shallow, and I took the to read what someone else posted, and I'm reasonably sure it was AI Slop. So if it's AI Slop, is it really another person's work?
I’m genuinely interested in why you think this particular post is ‘AI slop’.