Revolution in Microelectronics
an orgy of diagnostic blundering."
Revolution in "Microelectronics" Robert N. Joyce; "Microelectronics and the Personal Com-
icroelectronics puter" by Alan C. Kay, in ScientificAmer-ican (Sept. 1977), 415 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
It all began 30 years ago with the development of the transistor, a small, low-power electric amplifier that replaced the large, power- hungry vacuum tube. Within the last decade, "microelectronics" has once again revolutionized...