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16th Nov 2007, 9:27 pm
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Good to see the pre-history of the transistor recognised
You may quibble with some of the editorial choices on this timeline of computing but it's good to see some of the "other" history of the transistor being given an airing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7091190.stm It wasn't all down to Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain at Bell Labs. |
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16th Nov 2007, 10:38 pm
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Re: Good to see the pre-history of the transistor recognised
I find this sort of information facinating. I wonder where we would have been now if valve technology had been bypassed and we'd gone straight in to semiconductors?
Rich.
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21st Nov 2007, 2:59 am
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Re: Good to see the pre-history of the transistor recognised
I can't help but wonder how the world would have changed if Babbage had been able to get his difference engine up & running...
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21st Nov 2007, 6:35 pm
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Re: Good to see the pre-history of the transistor recognised
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