microprofessor

That`s life. Valves or tubes are distinctly passe -except where they are used for control-mg the flow of fluids or gasses. Schools and technical colleges have switched over to transistors. A brave step, but by now the price of TTL ICs has dropped to an all-time low (a 7400 costs the same as a BCI07), COSMOS prices are still falling rapidly, and both TTL and COSMOS may well be laid by the heels in the near future by one or more of the other new technologies (Low Power., Schottky TTL, LOCMOS, 1 2 L, etc.). And now: over the horizon looms the microprocessor ... . Nearly all self-respecting manufacturers of semiconductors have designed a sys-tem , improved it, and are now trying to force it down the throat of the poor consumer.