Subj : Re: Art of the Future
To   : alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : ToolPackinMama
Date : Wed Oct 12 2005 12:02:32

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

George Peatty wrote:
> From an article online today.  Makes you wonder what's on the CPUs of the
> Enterprise:
> 
> Historical etchings
> Silicon artistry is a skill more than three decades old. The earliest known
> images in the Silicon Zoo are on Texas Instruments chips from the late 1960s or
> early 1970s, featuring a sailboat, the Apollo mission lunar lander and the
> U.S.S. Enterprise starship from the "Star Trek" TV series.
> 

There's a whole website devoted to the CPU art.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/enterprise.html

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