{"id":38,"date":"2005-04-11T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/04\/11\/rest-in-peace-unknown-inventor-of-the-"},"modified":"2005-04-11T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T15:24:41","slug":"rest-in-peace-unknown-inventor-of-the-micropc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/04\/11\/rest-in-peace-unknown-inventor-of-the-micropc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in peace, unknown inventor of the MicroPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a504'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n L&#8217;ann&#233;e suivante le premier micro-ordinateur au monde voyait le<br \/>\n jour: d&#232;s 1973, le Micral N fut construit en s&#233;rie autour du<br \/>\n processeur Intel 8008 cadenc&#233; &#224; 500 Khz (environ 50.000<br \/>\n instructions par secondes) avec une m&#233;moire de 16 koctets du type<br \/>\n MOS (metal oxyde semiconductor).<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n For all of you who forgot your high school French, the big thing to pull<br \/>\n out of that blob of French text is the year 1973.   In 1973 a quiet French<br \/>\n guy of Vietnamese origin helped pave the way to the microcomputer revolution.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n However, sadly, I don&#8217;t thinks news really hit the shores of America so<br \/>\n the birth of the micro-computer is mostly thought to have originated in the<br \/>\n U.S.  The power of advertising and belief is not something to be underestimated.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n If you build it, they might come.  But not in the direction you think they will.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silicon.fr\/getarticle.asp?ID=9201\">Read a little more on Andr&#233; Truong<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&#8217;ann&#233;e suivante le premier micro-ordinateur au monde voyait le jour: d&#232;s 1973, le Micral N fut construit en s&#233;rie autour du processeur Intel 8008 cadenc&#233; &#224; 500 Khz (environ 50.000 instructions par secondes) avec une m&#233;moire de 16 koctets du type MOS (metal oxyde semiconductor). For all of you who forgot your high school French, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}