[sdiy] monoliths and how we got to 2001

[danial stocks]

> > first "chip" I saw was in a hifi book called "the a to z of hifi sound
> > reproduction" which was published in 1958. at the time of going to
> > ...
> > the size of a cigarrette packet and described in the caption as "the
> > world's first solid state integrated circuit audio amplifier".

note.. size of a cigarrette packet.. this was probably not a monolithic chip 
as we know it.. I have some early op amps like this, a 2cm square by 1.5cm 
high plastic block.. functionally an op amp, but inside I think they use a 
ceramic substrate, maybe the thin film resistors and transistor chips 
mounted straight on the board rather than casing them first.... like the STK 
audio amp hybrid 'ics' - not fabricated in a multi transistor chip at all!
Cheers,
Dan
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