The Chip That Jack Built.....

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Jack K.ilby
1923 - 2005

Jack St. Clair Kilb.y passed away June 20, 2005, in Dallas following a brief battle with cancer, at 81.  Jack is the pioneer of the Microchip.  He worked at T.exas Ins.truments for many years.  Jack can be known as the founding father of Information Technology as we know it today.  Thank Jack for the use of all your cool electronics like your, Tivo, DVD player and ipod to mention a few!

Did you know Jack invented the calculator?

Oh, and that internet we love so much...thank Jack!

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AAah, so he's the one responsible for all of this virtual interacting stuff that's going on and the world wide web. Jack man, you did your thing. Kudos. Miss Hop, thank you for bringing that to our attention luv. Now I'm going to share this info with people and act like I've known all along (wink)

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