Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

Gordon Bell passed away. He was an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation and a key creator of the PDP-1 mini-computer, which launched an amazing series of computers. He also was the "namesake of the ACM's prestigious Gordon Bell Prize, created to spur innovations in parallel processing"

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Robert Denard was quite a clever bloke. He figured out how to pair a transistor with a capacitor to store a bit of rewriteable memory.

Prior to Denard's discovery, memory was stored in magnetic cores. It was a bulky and balky process that was pretty low density. What Denard did pioneered the development of the internet in our pockets.

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