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.
