[sdiy] Re: [AH] Birthday of the IC

[Dave Manley]

Magnus Danielson wrote:
> Paul Schreiber wrote:
>> I was over at TI in Dallas ~ 5 years ago roaming the halls. I was 
>> looking for a water fountain, turned a corner, and was almost run 
>> over my him. The guy is HUGE, I'll bet maybe 6'8". Sort of creepy, he 
>> was the biggest old guy I've ever seen.
>>
>> I smiled when I noticed the plastic shirt pocket protector he still 
>> used.
>
> What makes me wonder whatever he did after that IC thing. What designs 
> and contributions did he do? The only thing which comes up is this IC 
> thing, and as fashinating that is, there is surely more to that guy 
> than that. Something else must have happend, even if we may not 
> consider it that major.
>

Besides a lot of IC related patents, first computer using ICs, first 
handheld calculator, thermal printer.

63 patents: 
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=jack&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=kilby&FIELD2=INNM&d=PALL


-Dave