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A new generation is uncovering the tiny doodles left by engineers on old microchips
Engineers left these drawings as a way to sign their work. Many are puns that made them chuckle to themselves. Now social media has rediscovered them and hobbyists try to keep that history alive.
And there is now a small but determined group of online hobbyists working to keep that history alive.They are still cataloguing the miniscule drawings — many smaller than the width of a human hair and can't be seen without a microscope. The late research scientist Michael W. Davidson who ran the optical microscopy laboratory at Florida State University for about decade until his retirement (and death) in 2015 had a microscope he used to photograph integrated circuits. The site has catalogued dozens of doodles, many that wink to the function of the integrated circuit, like an elephant on a memory chip, or a can o' worms nodding to the many problems a designer faced.
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