Fairchild Micrologic 90%

: Fairchild eventually released a full set of logic building blocks, including buffers, gates, and half-adders, allowing engineers to design entire digital systems using only Micrologic chips.

While these chips are now obsolete and strictly the domain of collectors and vintage computing restorers, their impact and design merit a retrospective analysis. fairchild micrologic

The first Micrologic chips were sold for (over $1,000 today). Engineers joked that they were “gold-plated,” but the military paid because they replaced a $500 board of discrete components. Within three years, the price dropped to $2–$5 per chip . : Fairchild eventually released a full set of

When reviewing the Fairchild Micrologic series, one is not reviewing a mere set of electronic components; one is reviewing the dawn of the integrated circuit era. Before the Micrologic series, "computers" were massive assemblies of discrete transistors and hand-soldered connections. After the Micrologic series, the modern world began. Engineers joked that they were “gold-plated,” but the

To judge the Fairchild Micrologic series by modern performance metrics is to miss the point entirely. It is like criticizing the Wright Flyer for lacking in-flight Wi-Fi.