| ▲ | TacticalCoder 5 hours ago | |||||||
Same. It shows the link between big oil and companies in Texas and then computing moving to California. It both shows mainframe, personal computers (the C64) and then beige PC taking over. Great intro too: | ||||||||
| ▲ | throw0101a 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
> Same. It shows the link between big oil and companies in Texas […] E.g., > Texas Instruments was founded by Cecil H. Green, J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott, and Patrick E. Haggerty in 1951. McDermott was one of the original founders of Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI) in 1930. McDermott, Green, and Jonsson were GSI employees who purchased the company in 1941. In November 1945, Patrick Haggerty was hired as general manager of the Laboratory and Manufacturing (L&M) division, which focused on electronic equipment.[14] By 1951, the L&M division, with its defense contracts, was growing faster than GSI's geophysical division. The company was reorganized and initially renamed General Instruments Inc. Because a firm named General Instrument already existed, the company was renamed Texas Instruments that same year. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments And how it got in contact with military contracts: > TI entered the defense electronics market in 1942 with submarine detection equipment,[41] based on the seismic exploration technology previously developed for the oil industry. The division responsible for these products was known at different times as the Laboratory & Manufacturing Division, the Apparatus Division, the Equipment Group, and the Defense Systems & Electronics Group (DSEG). * Ibid | ||||||||
| ▲ | 0xCMP 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Oh I'd never connected this. It makes so much sense. I'd always wondered what Texas had to do with computing that made so many things start there. | ||||||||
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