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The Transistor's 60th Birthday

Posted by kdawson on from the silly-hats-will-be-worn dept.

Apple Acolyte sends in a Forbes piece noting the 60th birthday of the transistor on Dec, 16. For the occasion the AP provides the obligatory Moore's-Law-is-ending, no-it-isn't article. From Forbes: "Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world's first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so impossibly bulky, hot and power hungry."

2 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The hell? by Hal_Porter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe no one wants to honour a notorious racist like William Shockley

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley#Beliefs_about_populations_and_genetics

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  2. Re:As every audiophile knows... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Also: The "Virtual Tube" DSP amps do not sound the same, regardless of what a tone-deaf atheist says. Musicians are "Christians" in the derogatory sense you intend, although they usually christians in the true sense of being lovers of the bible and life. They may not know science, but that doesn't mean they don't know anything. Skilled believers DO know God, and there is a reason they prefer God for education, morality, etc.

    Hmmm. I'm confused.