Norman, Bob (Robert) oral history | Computer History Museum

Type

Text

Title

Norman, Bob (Robert) oral history

Contributor

Laws, David, Interviewer; Editor

Norman, Robert (Bob), Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Date

2009-05-07

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

23 p.

Description

Robert H. Norman was born and raised in New York. After service in the Navy and graduation from Oklahoma A&M, he joined Sperry Gyroscope where he introduced the use of semiconductors in logic design. He joined Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View, California in 1959 where he designed Micrologic, the first family of planar integrated circuits. Norman co-founded General Microelectronics (GM-e), the first company to manufacture commercial MOS integrated circuits in 1963. A second recording session is planned to cover the latter half of Mr. Norman's career.

Subject

Norman, Robert; Norman, Bob; Bobb, Howard; Noyce, Robert N.; Grinich, Vic; Haas, Isy; Anderson, Dick; Ferguson, Phil; Last, Jay; Farina, Don; Lowell, Art; Moore, Gordon; Sperry Gyroscope; Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation; General Microelectronics; GME; GM-e; Victor Calculator Project; Micrologic; integrated circuit; MOS; semiconductor history; bipolar; RTL; DCTL

Collection Title

Oral Histories Online

Accession Number

102702133

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