Texas Instruments Still In Business

[Limbo Pete]

I did a job, rather the company I work for did a job down at Texas Instruments in Dallas around 1990. Everything is locked down tight as fuck. People joke about calculators but those fools have been doing classified work for the government for decades. Everyone that worked on that job had to have security clearance just to get to certain areas and perform work. Some weird things were going on down there. There was a pizza delivery driver that delivered pizzas down there to one of the buildings and the pizza delivery guy had to have security clearance.

When we started the job we had a guy spill a bottle of water on the floor that he had on top of a ladder. He climbed down and started cleaning up the water and the Texas Instruments people shut down the entire floor and kicked everyone out until it was cleaned to their specifications. I'm not even making this shit up. Texas Instruments has been responsible for revolutionizing the world in various ways. you ever heard of Jack Kilby?

That old guy was on the team that gave us integrated circuits. In other words, the entire computer/information age of technology was launched because of that old dudes work at Texas Instruments in 1958.

Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000.[1] To congratulate him, American President Bill Clinton wrote, "You can take pride in the knowledge that your work will help to improve lives for generations to come."[2]

Anyway, most of the areas at Texas Instruments we couldn't even get near because of clearance and we had escorts everywhere. Pretty intense for a calculator company.

Huh
Learn something new every day

 

[astrozician]

I learned to program on a TI 99 4A. 16-bit, years before SNES and Genesis.

 

[Plutoburn]

I think overall, Casio dominates the calculator industry.

 

[KILL KILL]

Every college student in America owns a TI calculator.

 

[Cheese]

This. I work for there fitness department at there Dallas HQ. There current finacial situation is the best it's been in 15 years.

Raytheon is still located at there HQ and they do tons of military contracts. There integrated circuit building manufacturers/designs the chips and then sells them to other companies (these chips are literally the basis of EVERYTHING electronic). There legal department makes them assloads of money since they have tons of patents due to striking first on alot of designs.

Here's an article about there recent success. Shares went up almost 30% in 2017 alone https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/13/cramer-if-you-want-to-sleep-at-night-buy-texas-instruments.html

Holy hell that is impressive.

That is why I was wondering about them to. My mom has worked for them for 40yrs and was just telling about some stock check she just got. Like a profit share or something. I asked her how they still in business but her department is more trouble shooting than anything. I told her its time to cash out and retire but she doesnt want to be bored at home. I work there out of High School in Lewisville at their Tape Libaray. At the time there had one of the biggest off site data torage libaries. I am glad to see them doing so good.

 

[Po]

Gateway (computers) is buying them all up.

Great memories of their calculators in school and showing friends how you could spell "boobies"

Now I feel lame. All I had was "hello".

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I used to have a TI-99 back in the day. Shit was awesome.

Used to play Hunt the Wumpus

As well as the most blatant rip-off of Donkey Kong, Bigfoot

 

[I Am Legion]

I was never into technology or gaming. After Atari 2600,I got into BMX and sports. When my friends were playing Sega I was trying to finger girls in the basement. When Math class came, I sat next to Asians longing to be popular. When I took Basic and Pascal in High School I thought my life was going to be hard because my brain didn’t work that way.....what a waste those hours were. I went into sales and made more money then all my brainy tech friends. Granted, none of them worked early for IBM, Apple, or Microsoft.

 

[TheRash]

My brother in law works for Texas Instruments in Dallas. Not sure exactly what he does, all he tells me is that he works with semi conductors in circuits. He makes damn good money's too, so whatever TI does, they are pretty good at it.

 

[Deleted member 220895]

This was the easiest search in Google yet.

www.ti.com/

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

On a related note, little-known fact:

I surf the web & use sherdog exclusively on my Commodore 64.

Fuckin' lode runner, you are

 

[ralphc1]

They're literally the only graphing calculator you see kids use in high school is how and most schools ONLY buy their calculators and all the textbooks are written to use the Texas Instruments way of doing shit.

It's a function of calculator companies not being willing or able to standardize their keypads. Schools don't want to have to teach students to use multiple brands of calculators.

 

[erhnamdjinn]

Texas instruments supplies temperature detectors plus alot of internal electronic stuff to motors my company builds.

 

[Cygnus A]

I did a job, rather the company I work for did a job down at Texas Instruments in Dallas around 1990. Everything is locked down tight as fuck. People joke about calculators but those fools have been doing classified work for the government for decades. Everyone that worked on that job had to have security clearance just to get to certain areas and perform work. Some weird things were going on down there. There was a pizza delivery driver that delivered pizzas down there to one of the buildings and the pizza delivery guy had to have security clearance.

When we started the job we had a guy spill a bottle of water on the floor that he had on top of a ladder. He climbed down and started cleaning up the water and the Texas Instruments people shut down the entire floor and kicked everyone out until it was cleaned to their specifications. I'm not even making this shit up. Texas Instruments has been responsible for revolutionizing the world in various ways. you ever heard of Jack Kilby?

That old guy was on the team that gave us integrated circuits. In other words, the entire computer/information age of technology was launched because of that old dudes work at Texas Instruments in 1958.

Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000.[1] To congratulate him, American President Bill Clinton wrote, "You can take pride in the knowledge that your work will help to improve lives for generations to come."[2]

Anyway, most of the areas at Texas Instruments we couldn't even get near because of clearance and we had escorts everywhere. Pretty intense for a calculator company.

Calculators are just a front and a minor part of their business. I cant say how I know...

 

[Sir Galahad]

Lot of Radio Shack closed down in my state the past few years.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Great memories of their calculators in school and showing friends how you could spell "boobies"

*bobs

 

[Renard]

I did a job, rather the company I work for did a job down at Texas Instruments in Dallas around 1990. Everything is locked down tight as fuck. People joke about calculators but those fools have been doing classified work for the government for decades. Everyone that worked on that job had to have security clearance just to get to certain areas and perform work. Some weird things were going on down there. There was a pizza delivery driver that delivered pizzas down there to one of the buildings and the pizza delivery guy had to have security clearance.

When we started the job we had a guy spill a bottle of water on the floor that he had on top of a ladder. He climbed down and started cleaning up the water and the Texas Instruments people shut down the entire floor and kicked everyone out until it was cleaned to their specifications. I'm not even making this shit up. Texas Instruments has been responsible for revolutionizing the world in various ways. you ever heard of Jack Kilby?

That old guy was on the team that gave us integrated circuits. In other words, the entire computer/information age of technology was launched because of that old dudes work at Texas Instruments in 1958.

Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000.[1] To congratulate him, American President Bill Clinton wrote, "You can take pride in the knowledge that your work will help to improve lives for generations to come."[2]

Anyway, most of the areas at Texas Instruments we couldn't even get near because of clearance and we had escorts everywhere. Pretty intense for a calculator company.

So basically it's some kind of company doing black ops shit and pretending to be a calculator company as cover

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Calculators are just a front and a minor part of their business. I cant say how I know...

No, you can't

 

[10000 Days]

 

[MusterX]

So basically it's some kind of company doing black ops shit and pretending to be a calculator company as cover

HAHA, I don't know, someone else posted they sold their "government contracts" or something around 97. I was there around 90 and I'm telling you straight up they were doing things in there that nobody was supposed to know about. I don't know exactly what but the place was locked down tighter than a prison. They could very well still be doing some government work to this day and you wouldn't know about it. It is interesting too that the entire computer revolution was made possible by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments. Most people would never guess such a thing.