Retrรณpolis ยท @retropolis
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Last night, I attended a meeting inside the former headquarters of , which I remember for its integrated circuits including the fantastically-popular timer (1972) and the never-released 25120 "fully encoded, 9046ร—N, Random Access, write-only-memory" (WOM, 1973).

Started in 1961, Signetics in 1964 became--by far--the largest chip maker in .

The building still shows hints of where the fab was.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signetic

#signetics #ne555 #siliconvalley

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