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"My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue."
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"The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5."
"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."
"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."
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"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers."
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