27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
1:10 p.m.
> Even earlier? (Lilienfeld FET in Canada 1925)
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
C: I'm probably not the first one on the list to
be informed of
this. Why all the hubbub over Shockley then???
different kinds of transistors. Some are easier to invent than others.
> Shockley's 1948 Bell Labs stuff wasn't
really a basement.
C: Sorry. I meant crawl space.
I didn't know
that Bell Labs had any crawl spaces!
Later in life, he did some social writing that impklies that there might
have been inadequate ventilation!
Is that where
Radio Shack was buying theirs?
C: From him? Directly? Is he up to date on his tax
payments?