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First Microprocessor: CHAPTER 2 – The Accidental Engineer

September 18, 2020, 9:30 am

The class he recommended was physics of electricity. I was not too thrilled but willing to take it because I remembered how well I was able to fix radios and how much I enjoyed it. I soon learned the...

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First Microprocessor: CHAPTER 1 – Baseball, Radios, and Engineering

August 30, 2020, 10:42 pm

I was going to be a baseball player. Baseball became the center of my life at a very young age, and I decided then that America’s favorite pastime was going to remain as the center of my life forever....

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First Microprocessor: Foreward – Dave “Bio” Baranek – Former F-14 “Tom Cat”...

May 31, 2020, 8:39 pm

When the Navy first flew its F-14 Tomcat fighter in 1970, it was the world’s most advanced fighter and ushered in a whole new generation of tactical aircraft capabilities. This would be an impressive...

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First Microprocessor: Foreward by Bart Everett. Space and Naval Warfare...

May 31, 2020, 8:25 pm

Foreword – Bart Everett – I first met Ray Holt in 2004, when he came to visit the Unmanned Systems Group at what is now the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, CA. Ray had stumbled...

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First Microprocessor: Foreward by Darold Cummings. Top USA Aircraft Designer,...

May 30, 2020, 10:13 pm

There is a very interesting book entitled “The Nearly Men” by Mike Green. It chronicles the inventors who should be given credit for major inventions, but failed gain recognition for various reasons,...

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First Microprocessor: Author Preface on the History of the World’s First...

February 27, 2020, 8:30 pm

Preface on the History of the World’s First Microprocessor. Author Preface to the “Accidental Engineer” ~ Ray Holt ~ Growing up was not so normal. Our father was an Itinerant welder and pipe fitter and...

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First Microprocessor: LSI Technology State-of-the-Art in 1968

February 10, 2020, 3:59 pm

First Microprocessor: LSI Technology State-of-the-Art in 1968.The F14A Central Air Data Computer and the LSI Technology State-of-the-Art in 1968Ray M. Holtupdated September 22, 1998 This paper is...

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Intel Marketing of the 4004, 8008 and PL/M

February 1, 2020, 4:58 pm

This cover picture on my book, “The Accidental Engineer“, was staged but it was also a very significant time for the Intel Microcomputer Marketing team. The cover picture (which is actually flipped...

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January 30, 2020, 9:16 pm

THE REAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S FIRST MICROPROCESSOR. THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. First Microprocessor Blog. I will use this blog space to publish excerpts from my book, “The Accidental...

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