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Engineers of Innovative Computer Chip Make Homes in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2001

By Chris Walsh, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 22--Colorado Springs has seen its share of prominent technology innovators and entrepreneurs over the years.

Nikola Tesla, the eccentric inventor whose work led to vacuum tubes, fluorescent lights and X-rays, briefly made his home in the area a century ago.

Seymour Cray, widely known as the father of the supercomputer, founded two companies in the Springs before he died in 1996. And John McAfee, who developed the popular anti-virus software that bears his last name, lives in Woodland Park.

But the city has another, less visible, claim to high-tech fame.

Colorado Springs is home to several engineers who developed an innovative...

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