TRADIC

The problem here is that there are a lot more facts that say most early transistor research was so the Bell System could get rid of all those tubes in repeater service, mostly for power and space reasons. Define "to a large extent". The military was actually very slow at adapting to transistor solid state - there were many, many guys in the high up positions that did not want them. They were right - transistors were relatively unreliable (and poor performers) compared to tubes until about 1960. It was not until the mid-1960 until the military started to field partial or entirely solid state units to the troops. TRADIC and a few other solid state equipments in the 1950s were pretty much fantasyland - from an era when just about anything could be funded by the military. Some might call it "pork". And once again I will point out that Camp Evans was just a small part of the Signal Corps. It was not the center, by any means. And do not call the Signal Corps "ASC" - almost nobody uses that. -- Will