Doing the Hard Things

摘要

In a speech at Rice Stadium, President John F. Kennedy declared, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." In the same year, Telstar 1 relayed telephonecalls, fax images, and the first live trans-Atlantic television signal. In addition, 90% of U.S. households had televisions, on which viewers could watch a new hit show called "The Beverly Hillbillies." The year was 1962, and that's also the year Evaluation Engineering reached its first subscribers. The issue, based on a prototype developed in October 1961, carried a March 1962 date and included the article "Integrated Circuits—State of the Art."