24 April 20

Today's tie celebrates tomorrow's anniversary of the patenting of the microchip, in 1961. The multiple electronic components of our personal computers (each containing many microchips) were originally connected through slots in a "backplane," but around 1980 those parts were combined into a single panel called a "motherboard," which is the basis for the design on my tie. A quick search today located a collection of poems about motherboards.


 
A computer motherboard, By JulianVilla26 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84225711