27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
10:53 a.m.
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
> About a year ago, I worked on an estate of a man
that made transistors
> in his basement - but then he was a Bell Labs semiconductor physicist.
> Oh, and he was doing this 25-some years ago...
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
C: He was? I thought they were doing *that* 60+ years
ago.
Even earlier? (Lilienfeld FET in Canada 1925)
C: I don't know. Canadians seem to bat 1,000 when it comes to innovation. I think
I'm becoming jealous here.
???? I'm probably not the first one on the list to be informed of this. Why all the
hubbub over Shockley then???
Shockley's 1948 Bell Labs stuff wasn't really a basement.
C: Sorry. I meant crawl space.
Did he actually think he was saving money as opposed
to going to Radio Shack.
Is that where Radio Shack was buying theirs?
C: From him? Directly? Is he up to date on his tax payments?