Summary : Howard Moss: For opening up western frontier of semiconductor industry to America
Howard Moss — HoF: For opening up western frontier of semiconductor industry to America’s space program
- Charged with finding chips reliable enough to withstand rigors of space
- None of eastern electronics companies made the grade
- TI's Pat Haggerty demonstrated they could, with a transistor radio playing in a beaker of boiling water
- An early proof of how consumer volumes could be used to yield extreme quality grades
- Moss, then with the U.S. Army’s Signal Corp, had the guts to write a check to TI on the spot
