{"id":3096,"date":"2023-10-04T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/10\/04\/sunburst-and-luminary-a-poem-about-transistors-and-ics\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"sunburst-and-luminary-a-poem-about-transistors-and-ics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/10\/04\/sunburst-and-luminary-a-poem-about-transistors-and-ics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunburst and Luminary — A Poem about Transistors and ICs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Sunburst and Luminary<\/i> by Don Eyles has a lot of the kind of color that helps the reader understand what was going on technologically during the 1960s. For example, there is this poem about integrated circuits (you don’t get to use “poem” and “integrated circuits” in the same sentence very often): <\/b><\/div>\n

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The transistor’s a marvelous invention<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n
Replaced the tube convention<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n
<\/span> Found its niche<\/span>
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<\/span> To amplify or switch<\/span>
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Whatever the designer’s intention. <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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But the breakthrough was the IC<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Integrated monolithically<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span> It became pivotal<\/span>
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<\/span> As computers went digital <\/span>
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With increasing complexity. <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Eyles tells us that this poem was written by hardware designer Jayne Partridge, and appears in Eldon Hall’s write-up of the Apollo Guidance Computer and the decision to use ICs in it: <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Journey-Moon-Guidance-Computer-1996-09-03\/dp\/B01F9FSN7C<\/a><\/b> <\/a> <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunburst and Luminary by Don Eyles has a lot of the kind of color that helps the reader understand what was going on technologically during the 1960s. For example, there is this poem about integrated circuits (you don’t get to use “poem” and “integrated circuits” in the same sentence very often): The transistor’s a marvelous … Continue reading “Sunburst and Luminary — A Poem about Transistors and ICs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,194,143,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integrated-circuits","category-poetry","category-software","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}