Happy Birthday the Integrated Circuit!

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Wikipedia has it as 51 years old.

"Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958 and successfully demonstrated the first working integrated circuit on September 12, 1958."

It IS 51. My blog's built-in solid state technology birthday counter only goes to 50.

Well I for one honored the day by working on a microcontroller circuit. And the subsequent day. Exciting weekend.

And yes, Greg, I programmed it from (sigh) a linux based pc.