{"id":6690,"date":"2016-01-20T23:03:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2016-01-20T23:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:03:01","slug":"the-dado-banatao-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/20\/the-dado-banatao-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dado Banatao Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Banatao was born on May 23, 1946 in Malabbac, Iguig, Cagayan<\/a>, Philippines<\/a>. His father, Salvador Banatao, was a rice farmer. His mother, Rosita Banatao, was a housekeeper.[2]<\/a><\/sup>
\nBanatao is known for his rags to riches<\/a> story. During his childhood, he walked barefoot on a dirt road just to reach Malabbac Elementary School. He pursued his secondary education at the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Tuguegarao<\/a>. After high school, he pursued hisBachelor of Science in Electric Engineering<\/a> from the Map\u00faa Institute of Technology<\/a> and graduated cum laude.[4]<\/a><\/sup>[5]<\/a><\/sup>
\nAfter college, he turned down several job offers, including one from Meralco<\/a>. He joined Philippine Airlines<\/a> as a trainee pilot, and was later pirated by Boeing<\/a>. At Boeing, he worked as a design engineer<\/a> for the company’s new commercial airliner<\/a> and cargo transport aircraft, Boeing 747<\/a>, in the United States<\/a>. With the opportunity to stay in the United States, he then took his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<\/a> at Stanford University<\/a> and finished in 1972.[2]<\/a><\/sup>[6]<\/a><\/sup> Banatao also joined the Homebrew Computer Club, where he met Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.[7]<\/a><\/sup>
\nAfter finishing his master’s degree, Banatao worked with different technology companies such as the National Semiconductor<\/a>,Intersil<\/a>, and Commodore International<\/a> where he designed the first single chip, 16-bit microprocessor-based calculator.[2]<\/a><\/sup> In 1981, he developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transreceiver chip while working in Seeq Technology<\/a>. He was also credited for the firstsystem logic chip set<\/a> for IBM<\/a>‘s PC-XT<\/a> and the PC-AT<\/a>; the local bus concept and the first Windows Graphics<\/a> accelerator chip<\/a> for personal computers<\/a>.[8]<\/a><\/sup>
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dado_Banatao
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