On 2025-10-24 6:29 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
I had forgotten that 75 years ago, Oct. 3, 1950, the
transistor was
invented leading to integrated circuits making possible personal computers
and the interest of our love of computing. Where would we be without
Bardeen's, Brattain's and Shockley's invention?
I HAVE NO idea.
When did the point contact diode come out? Radar was the big tech then
so any use of solid state diodes would be Secret Information.
Happy computing,
Murray 🙂
But the Japanese can give us a hintThe Parametron.
https://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/dawn/0007.htmlComputers can work
without transistors, but not diodes.Ben.