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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: 40 years of Microprocessor Advertising
Forty years ago this month (November 1971) Intel placed its first advertisement in an industry newspaper, Electronic News, promoting the new MCS-4 Microcomputer Family. Based on the 4004 four-bit CPU...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Sonnet for Dennis Ritchie
Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things that make Silicon Valley work, from search engines to smartphones, died in early October....
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Analog Antitheses
In his column of 11.18.11 in the San Jose Mercury News, Mike Cassidy describes the creative chaos of iconic Silicon Valley chip designer Jim Williams’s workbench now on display at the Computer History...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Google Doodles Robert Noyce
Today’s Google doodle honors one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley. The word Google etched into the surface of a silicon microchip celebrates the 84th birthday of Robert N. Noyce.Born on...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: First WWW site in US is 20 this week
This week celebrates the 20th anniversary of the birth of the World Wide Web (WWW) in the United States. The second web site in the world and the first in the US was activated on December 12 1991 at...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Tips for Hi-tech Tourists
In the February issue of “Emirates” the in-flight magazine of the International Airline of United Arab Emirates (Dubai), local journalist Gary Singh offers recommendations to tourists on visiting...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: “If it Ain’t Broke”
“If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today” an interesting article from PC World of February 19, 2012 describes applications still running on computer hardware dating back to a...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Grand Daddy of today's microchips
The cover of the current issue (Jan-March 2012) of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical Engineers) magazine Annals of the History of Computing features a historic Silicon Valley chip. Highlighting a...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: NPR on the Origins of Silicon Valley
This week (April 4-5-6) National Public Radio’s Morning Edition is airing a three-part series by Laura Sydell on the origins and development of Silicon Valley. Created with the participation of Gordon...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Precursor to the Movies
On April 9 2012, Google celebrated the 182th birthday of eccentric English photographer Eadweard J Muybridge by creating an animated "doodle" based on his multiple images of a racehorse taken on...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Victorian Computer is 4
A Babbage Difference Engine, a mechanical computer, designed by English scientist Charles Babbage in the early days of the Victorian era celebrates its 4th birthday this week. So how come a computer...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Steve Jobs did not live in an Eichler
Biographer Walter Isaacson described at length how the functionality and simplicity of Steve Jobs’ childhood Eichler home influenced the design of Apple products. In fact that house was not built by...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Steve Jobs walked here (Photos)
May 11, 2012 is National Public Gardens Day, a national day of celebration to raise awareness of America’s public gardens. The Gamble Garden Center is a public garden in Palo Alto is that is steeped...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Two hi-tech game anniversaries
On May 19, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View will be marking the 50th anniversary of the conception of one of the earliest and most influential videogames. In 1961, Digital Equipment...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Chess "End Game" this weekend
Recently we posted an article on Deep Blue, the IBM computer that beat chess master Gary Kasparov, which is exhibited in the “Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess” at the Computer History...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Another byte at the Apple
If you missed out on the Apple 1 computer that sold for $213K in November 2010, here’s another opportunity. Sotheby’s will auction one of only 6 known remaining working models on June 15, 2012 in New...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: Apple 1 sells for $374,500
In a fierce bidding contest, an Apple 1 computer board auctioned at Sotheby’s New York gallery yesterday sold for $374,500. As we reported on June 1, the catalog expected range was $120K – 180K. The...
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Silicon Valley Roots & Shoots: "Going Places" with Google
Going Places: The History of Google Maps with Street View, the new exhibit that opens at the Computer History Museum on June 23, fails the 10-year rule I like to follow for considering technology...
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Would you knock down the Tower of London?
Or the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome? Or the Tower of David in Jerusalem? All these structures were built to protect against attack by foreign invaders. The skylines of many of the most historic cities...
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RIP: Analog design guru Hans Camenzind
Hans Camenzind, the Silicon Valley analog microchip designer who invented one of the most successful circuits in analog history, passed away on August 15, 2012 at the age of 78.Camenzind was born in...
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