The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

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Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

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They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

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