[Elecraft] K2 vs K3 re: final COST

[Augie Hansen]

>> remember, not too many years ago (88), 
>> having a meeting in a room at Bell Lab's Allentown
>> facility (or was it NJ) - and behind me on
>> the wall of that lab - which had a brass plaque
>> which read "... in this lab in 1953 (or whatever
>> the correct year was), the first transistor
>> IC was invented".   Wow - time marches on!
> 1959, IIRC. 

Actually, the transistor was "born" in the Labs in late 1947. It became 
available at an affordable price to kids like me (and grownups, too) by 
the early 1950s when Raytheon produced the CK722. I bought my first one 
at the tender age of nine to build transistor projects that appeared in 
articles in Popular Electronics and other magazines of the day.

Gus Hansen
KB0YH