Re: Transistor history.
Well spotted Andy and thanks.
At the same time I wish to point out that I was very fortunate to visit Japan during the 1990s on business on many occasions. What an eye opener. From a technology viewpoint especially from a power engineering aspect, certain items for electrical transmission use are only available from Japan. Here I wish to refer to specific insulators and switchgear as well as large generator casings.
I also recall one large construction company that employed upwards of 5000 engineers yet only 3% of them had computers. Rather, the ones without had to work in conjunction with their standards department within which every single variable and their associated boundary criterion had been catalogued and monitored for any products they would be working with. I do recall a bottle of beer was £9.00 in 1998 and a cup of coffee cost £6.00.
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