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S100 Buss?
Chips not made in the USA: The "makers" of the chips were USA companies like Fairchild and Texas Instruments. But the chips themselves were likely assembled/packaged (and labeled) in those far-east countries.
It seems possible that the silicon die were fabbed in the USA, but then shipped offshore for assembly and packaging, a common practice to this day. It seems likely that you couldn't buy a completely USA-made/packaged 7400 chip in those days for any price. Of course the chips had to be military-spec certified (making them more expensive than ordinary civilian chips). Although the military-grade chips were branded 5400.
It's not really too unusual to see (supposedly) sensitive hardware surplussed-out to the general public. Around 15 years ago I picked up two machines at an auction in order to repurpose some of their power components and stepper motors. I later identified them as close-to-operable winding machines for TOW missile control wire spools. Some years later I recognized some missile flight hardware I had designed myself offered up for sale in an electronics surplus store. Those items should have been physically destroyed by obliterating markings and sawing in half, etc. before being scrapped.
You sound like Sigourney Weaver :).
EAM ?
Here's an even scarier tidbit … for the longest time during the Cold War the launch codes were set to all zeros.
War Games affected my future in tech. One my favorites of all time.
War Games Trivia question: What was the school password that Matthew Broderick found to hack into the schools computer to change his grades?
"… that half-assed bomb that he built " in the Manhattan Project movie…. hahaha
Saya sungguh terkejut, beberapa dari IC's itu ternyata dibuat di negara kami dan saat itu saya masih balita
Tape and Rubylith, optically shrank.
Ceramic packages sealed with frit glass. Hermetic packages with metal lids. That's the way it was done. All chips had US second sources, per contract.
so THIS is the fancy lighter that James May needed.
read out the eproms and show us the schematic please !