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What do you think would happen if transistors were not invented?
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∙ 11y ago
we would still have valve tv and radios the size of a briefcase.... computers as we know them would not exist but they would exist filling a building the size of an office block doing the work a credit card sized calculator can do now.
the original LEO (lyons electronic office) a valve computer, did payroll and simple (say a small modern shop) stock control for a few dozen companies in central london in the 1950/60s.. it had hundreds of workers and was the size of a modern hypermarket... the computing power was similar to the original sinclair zx80.
transistors were an accident... they were trying to make a "solid state valve" and got the bipolar transistor by accident (transistors are current controlled whilst valves are voltage controlled).... the closest we have got to the solid state valve is the multi-vertical fet used in microprocessors.
GE invented the transistor and saw no point in it... it was "bought" by "mr sony" who made the first transistor radio.... the rest is history
GE could not see the point of making "radiograms" smaller than big bits of furniture
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