Usually there is good reason things aren't duplicated for tens of years. Uesually that good reason is that the economics of the first one didn't work out so well.
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-- Keith
What's with the twisted leads on the first transistor?
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Nice links! Thanks.
Ed
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You ain't real bright, boy.
Try IMDB and search "This Island Earth".
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You probably don't even know what high K dielectrics are.
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It is bonded at your "tip" according to the electrical diagram of it.
It looks like it is attached to me as well.
That is a zoom in on the original, hi res, which I wish was posted. I am still digging through your google search links. :-]
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You'd be wrong again, AlwaysWrong.
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Wooooosssshhhhhh!
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Some kind of cosmetics? An inexpensive aftershave?
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ChairmanOfTheBored hath wroth:
The gap was 0.002" wide, which is kinda difficult to see (and draw).
The original should be somewhere on the Alacatel-Lucent-BellLabs web pile. However, I couldn't find anything better than the URL's already posted.
Here's a useless 20MBloat video from the Bell Labs site on the invention of the xsistor. Well it does have a dark and difficult to see picture of the reproduction:
This might be more useful:
It's a 3.2MBloat JPG of the inventors showing a mess of clipleads, fanstock clips, and junk on the table. I think the original transistor might be under the microscope, but it's difficult to be certain.
See the video clip at:
It's the clearest explanation I've found so far.
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Yes 2 mils is hard to see even when it is right in front of you IRL.
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I couldn't find a pic of the cigarette pack sized AM radio I had back in '69. I wish I could have found it. I even did a bunch more searches. It would likely help if I could remember the brand, but I can't. I was only nine. It was pretty cool though. I think I counted eleven transistors in it. It was smaller than a non-filter cig pack by about a cm. in length, and it had a chrome face and vertical bars for the grill. Brown plastic back. It was in a movie filmed in England that aired on the Sunday flics with Kukla, Fran, and Ollie.
I miss it, 'cause I'm sure it would fetch a pretty penny now.
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You've probably looked at this site already, but on the slim chance that you haven't:
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There's a _lot_ of transistor radios there.
Ed
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No, I hadn't, and thank you so much for that wonderful link/site.
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I found it! THANKS!
It is actually much better quality than most of the plastic ones shown...
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I miss that lil pup.
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WOW! I wish I had the whole thing, which I didn't.
"You put yer weed in there!"
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Somebody in Switzerland sold one on E-Bay for $17!
DANG!