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Offline YouCanToo

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Happy birthday, Transistor
« on: December 21, 2012, 12:12:06 PM »
The first working version powered up 65 years ago.

The transistor, the ubiquitous building block of all electronic circuits, will be 65 years old on Sunday. The device is jointly credited to William Shockley (1910-1989), John Bardeen (1908-1991) and Walter Brattain (1902-1987), and it was Bardeen and Brattain who operated the first working point-contact transistor during an experiment conducted on 16 December 1947.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/14/feature_the_transistor_is_65_years_old/
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Re: Happy birthday, Transistor
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2012, 11:28:18 PM »
The technology of my lifetime is astounding.

I remember in the 1960s having a multi-band AM/FM/MB/SW transistor radio with an external antenna; staying up late to tune in the world.


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