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Because a firm named General Instrument already existed, the company was renamed Texas Instruments that same year. From 1956 to 1961, Fred Agnich of Dallas, later a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, was the Texas Instruments president. Geophysical Service, Inc. became a subsidiary of Texas Instruments.
Texas Instruments releases the TI-99/4 microcomputer. This system generally used audio cassettes to store information, along with ROM modules, similar to gaming units, to hold commercial software. Additionally, TI made available a speech synthesizer, based on their own chip, for the TI-99/4 and its successor, the 4A. 1979: US
In 1983, the company reincorporated in Delaware and went public with stock trading on NASDAQ under the symbol BBRC. The company was incorporated in Tucson, Arizona in 1956 by founders Page Burr (Princeton 1944 [ 2 ] ) and Thomas R. Brown Jr. (BS MIT 1949, MBA Harvard 1952) to commercialize semiconductor transistors ; in 1959, the company posted ...
History of Computers (1989–2004) in PC World excerpts; How It Works – The Computer, 1971 and 1979 editions, by David Carey, illustrated by B. H. Robinson; PC History Stan Veit's classic work on the history of Pre-IBM personal computers. WWW-VL: Internet History Archived 2020-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
In 1951, the company was renamed Texas Instruments (TI) with GSI as a division. [2] GSI was later sold by TI, repurchased, and finally sold again to Halliburton in 1988. Halliburton also acquired GeoSource, a competing geophysical contractor (formerly Petty-Ray Geophysical), and attempted to merge the two companies.
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are one of the country music's most famous couples, but they've definitely had their ups and downs. “People thought, 'Well, two celebrities who are in the same ...
In 1958 a version of the integrated circuit was invented in Dallas by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments; this event punctuated the Dallas area's development as a center for high-technology manufacturing (though the technology Mr. Kilby developed was soon usurped by a competing technology simultaneously developed in the "Silicon Valley" in California by engineers who would go on to form Intel ...
YouTuber Trisha Paytas is engaged to a man named Moses Hacmon. The couple met on a dating show and now have a daughter together. What started out as a joke grew into a long-term romance.