'The winner of this rat race is the mouse with the best ability to nose its way through a maze' starts this May 25, 1979 Peninsula Times article which documents two of the competitors in the 1979 Amazing MicroMouse Contest.
The below editorial is from the September 5, 1978 issue of EDN featuring the one-chip S68047 Video Display Generator (VDG) which permitted the manufacturing of a low-cost, full-color video alphanumeric or graphics display interface for standard color televisions or color monitors.
The below article Old custom circuits handle new jobs was published in Design News's November 20, 1978 issue - posing the question, if the functions of a device change or expand, don't you also need a new set of LSIs?