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"They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive."
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"How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes."
"I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas."
"I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper."
"This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished."
"My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue."
"It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods."
"Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go."
"Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time."
"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."
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