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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 3130234, member: 5058"]
The computer was a NJ invention, like so many other things. The first known "computer" was ENIAC, built at UPenn. The base of computers and all electronic communication and math devices was a combination of the solid state transistor, made of silicon in Bell Labs Murray Hill, NJ in 1948. One of those inventors, William Shockley moved back home to California farm country after he was essentially fired by Bell Labs (he was very likely a racist) and founded Shockley Semiconductor. In part because of his ego and in part because of his "views" his 8 best employees left to join Fairchild Camera and create Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. One of the official founders is listed as our own Arthur Rock. It was a big political problem when it was discovered in 1967 that they were actually being run as a company from Syosset, NY. On the other end of computing, Claude Shannon also a Bell Labs NJ researcher published his Information Theory which is the basis for binary computer language, email, over-air communication, and the internet as a whole. Sorry to nerd out, but California and Silicon Valley gets too much credit for computers at the expense of NJ.

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