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

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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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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

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