27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
9:39 a.m.
> 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)
Shockley's 1948 Bell Labs stuff wasn't really a basement.
Did he actually think he was saving money as opposed
to going to Radio Shack.
Is that where Radio Shack was buying theirs?