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Jack Kilby

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

Jack Kilby

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In the 1950s, radios and televisions were the main popular electronic devices, while computers were just starting to emerge. Jack Kilby saw computers as the most sensible area to focus on because they were a new and growing market in electronics.

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