In February 1972, describing the construction of an MOS IC for use in an electronic calculator at the company’s fab in Glenrothes, Dr Stephen Forte, joint managing director of General Instruments Microelectronics, said that two miles of paper tape were consumed during the design of the chip.
‘A new system to be installed in the near future will use tape cassettes for the input and storage of design data’, says an Electronics Weekly report.
‘This will allow, for example, data for each layer of a complex IC to be held on one cassette’, says the report.
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