Texas Instruments this week donated more than 1,000 historic Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks tracing the birth and development of the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Museum officials are referring to the collection, which includes the patent notebooks of Fairchild founders Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and Jean Hoerni and early Fairchild employee Andy Grove, as “the Dead Sea Scrolls of Silicon Valley.” Curators now will begin the work of cataloguing the collection’s contents with the ultimate goal of displaying the most significant portions of it.
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