Doug Winterburn wrote:

You are correct on the transistor - it was developed in the late forties
or early fifties, but it's a huge jump from a transistor to a microchip
with thousands or millions of transistors and the accompanying several
orders of magnitude reduction in speed, size and weight.





maybe your confusing coincidence with cause.


About the tax thing? Others have stated it better than I could.




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Mark

N.E. Ohio


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