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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (544621)1/18/2010 12:05:10 PM
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"For example, YOUR example of computers."

Most of the early computers were built on government grants. When transistors, and later ICs were developed, the government was the major consumer of them. In fact, it was because of government programs like the Apollo program and the Minuteman program that ICs became commercially viable. They were the only market for $1000 ICs in the early 1960s and consumed all of the production in the early years.
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