In 1955, North American Aviation, the company which built Chuck Yeager’s X-15 rocket plane, and morphed into Rockwell, set up a subsidiary called Autonetics. Nine years later, Autonetics was NAA’s largest division employing 36,000 people. Autonetics worked on the Minuteman missile so it was heavily into IC R&D, munificently supported by military money. In 1962, …
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