The Transitors 60th birthday

[TLS Guy]

This weekend is the 60th birthday of the transistor.

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/12/15/transister-creation-anniversary-oped-cx_fa_1215transistor.html

We should take a moment to give thanks for that great invention. Without it forum members would have to have something else to interest them. It really was an invention that transformed the world on so many fronts.

 

[Haoleb]

Without it forum members would have to have something else to interest them.

Right you are. And that something as we all know is still the very popular Vacuume Tube!

 

[Seth=L]

Right you are. And that something as we all know is still the very popular Vacuume Tube!

You still have tubes yeah?

 

[Haoleb]

MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


Seems to do ok for a computer system

 

[Seth=L]

MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


Seems to do ok for a computer system

Your PC speaker system has most beat, but WmAx has got your for sure. I bet his isn't as pretty though.

 

[Warpdrv]

I think I owe my intelligence to the Transistor...

For Computers wouldn't be what they are today...

 

[TLS Guy]

You still have tubes yeah?

Try and build a home theater with out transistors, and that includes ICs. It would fill the house and then some likely!

 

[Rickster71]

It's as significant as the invention of the wheel.
They also created the laser, the solar cell, communications satellites, and the first transistorized computer.

Back in the eighties and nineties,
I worked in that very building, and the Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ.

The labs boast over 26,000 patents and eleven Nobel Prize winners.

Both very impressive places.