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History of Computer Hardware @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market (1954)
cross-posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/15044893
https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/first_silicon_transistors.html
::: spoiler image description Image of a magazine advertisement with the title text "silicon transistors now in production!"
Text at the bottom left identifies it as the June 1954 issue of ELECTRONICS.
The advertisement consists of a row of eight three-pin solid state components "growing" in a field. There is a building in the distance behind them. The components are alternately labeled with Texas Instruments' Map-of-Texas logo and the number "900". From left to right, each component is closer to the viewer, and the fifth-to-closest one is labeled "actual size".
This text is overlaid on the image:
silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market ... brought to you first by Texas Instruments, a leading transistor manufacturer. A new and unrivaled degree of design freedom is created by the TI n-p-n gr