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Silicon Valley Cover Image DVD DVD

Silicon Valley

MacLowry, Randall. (Producer, Screenwriter, Director). Strain, Tracy Heather. (Producer). Ferrari, Michelle. (Screenwriter). Kusiak, John. (Added Author). Willis, P. Andrew. (Added Author). PBS Distribution (Firm) (Added Author). Film Posse (Firm) (Added Author). American Experience Films. (Added Author). WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) (Added Author).

Summary: Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781608838363
  • ISBN: 1608838366
  • Physical Description: videorecording
    videodisc
    1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [United States] : PBS Distribution, [2013]

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Subtitle from container and disc menu: Where the future was born.
Formatted Contents Note: The birth of Silicon Valley -- Shockley Semiconductor -- The traitorous eight -- The space race -- Mass producing a reliable product -- The integrated circuit -- Fairchild increase competition -- Fairchildren splinters -- Intel and the microprocessor.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, Jon Else. ; music, John Kusiak, P. Andrew Willis
Participant or Performer Note: Narrator, Michael Murphy.
Target Audience Note:
Not rated.
System Details Note:
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen.
Language Note:
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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Subject: Fairchild (Firm) History
Noyce, Robert N. (Robert Norton) 1927-1990
Microelectronics industry California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) History
Computer industry California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) History
High technology industries California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) History
Genre: Historical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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Dougherty County Public Library:
      Northwest Branch 		DVD 338.4 SILICON ( Send Text)
 31018903366552 ADULT VIDEO Available
Flint River Regional Library System:
      Fayette County Public Library 		DVD 338.476 SILICON ( Send Text)
 31022007816462 ADULT Available
Hall County Library System:
      Gainesville Branch 		VIDEO 338.4 SILICON ( Send Text)
 31025003645157 AV Available
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      Carnegie Library 		338.4 SILI ( Send Text)
 50539021422098 VIDEO Available
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