24 Oct
2025
24 Oct
'25
7:29 p.m.
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?
Happy computing,
Murray 🙂
24 Oct
24 Oct
9:37 p.m.
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.
11:14 p.m.
Ummm, December 16, 1947.
Marc
On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM Murray McCullough via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> 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?
Happy computing,
Murray 🙂
11:16 p.m.
Did you use ChatGPT? That’s actually the issue date for the patent.
Marc
On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM Marc Howard <cramcram(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ummm, December 16, 1947.
Marc
On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM Murray McCullough via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> 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?
Happy computing,
Murray 🙂
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