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Transistor Radio Turns 50

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the led-to-other-things dept.

theodp writes "Before the iPod, there was the Regency TR-1. Fifty years ago Monday, tiny Indianapolis-based I.D.E.A. partnered with TI and shook the world with the first pocket-sized AM radio, so impressing IBM chief Tom Watson that he provided a $49.95 (roughly $345 in current dollars!), four transistor TR-1 to each of his senior managers to kick-start the company's transition from valves."

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  1. slashdotted already by kalpol · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must be using one for his web server.

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    12:50 - press return.
  2. 50 [virgin] years? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "How many people on slashdot have been alive this long?"

    And are still virgins?

  3. Re:Picture and a bit more by boredMDer · · Score: 4, Funny

    'which has a shape...surprisingly similar to an iPod...

    ...you mean a rectangle?