[Hallicrafters] The Halli Transistor Sistor

Wed Jun 3 15:17:36 EDT 2009

Hi Bob,

It seems to me Bob, that almost all of the men who became famous for 
inventing a product, discovering something in medicine, seeing a moon 
circling Jupiter, building a horsefree carriage etc. are said to be thieves! 
One wonders as to who truly discovered or invented what!

Many of us, including myself, did invent something only to have it stolen by 
a large corporation that we had no way of fighting for its ownership. 
Generally speaking, a copyright is rarely worth the cost of the ink used by 
the pen to sign the papers! When an item crosses a state line, or worse yet, 
leaves this country, the rules change! All that protection is useless or not 
enforceable or nobody is willing to defend the little guy's legal rights.

I still chuckle when I recall an incident that happened to me in March of 
1987. I was treated in a hospital emergency room - problem is, nobody 
examined me or ran tests or anything else! So they wanted to releaseme, as I 
had the Flu. Making a long tale short; I had an infected appendix that was 
on the edge of rupturing. They did admit me, but insisted I had a kidney 
stone.

My appendix ruptured, I nearly died etc.

I wrote the administrator of the hospital after I was released and detailed 
the list of blunders. Meanwhile some medical legal sharpshooters got my 
letter, and somehow my medical records, and contacted me about filing 
litigation etc.

The attorney who wrote to me said that there was solid evidence of several 
medical blunders and I had a no contest medical lawsuit worth at leaset one 
hundred thousand dollars plus. He then gave me the names and contact info 
for several other lawyers who might handle my case, as he did not handle any 
cases where the settlement would be a minimum of a million dollars!

I still have that letter and get it out every now and then to have somebody 
read it to me again. I am not a song writer, but maybe I should try my pen 
at one entitled "Color Me Green, As The Law Is Gone!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>; "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>; 
"jeff" <jeffv at op.net>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] The Halli Transistor Sistor

> As was previously pointed out the phenomena was discovered years earlier.
>
> One of Shockley's graduate students experimented with it and Shockley took
> the credit.
>
> In 1959 I worked for a spin-off of Shockley Labs and learned a lot about
> what a jerk Shockley was.
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Kent (Seattle), Wa,
> "Real Radios Glow in the Dark"
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
> To: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>; "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>; 
> "jeff"
> <jeffv at op.net>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] The Halli Transistor Sistor
>
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> So who really did make the discovery?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
>> To: "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>; "jeff" <jeffv at op.net>;
>> <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] The Halli Transistor Sistor
>>
>>
>> > And Shockley was not the inventor of the transistor eventhough he 
>> > claims
>> > it.
>> >
>> > Bob Macklin
>> > K5MYJ
>> > Kent (Seattle), Wa,
>> > "Real Radios Glow in the Dark"
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
>> > To: "jeff" <jeffv at op.net>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 2:20 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] The Halli Transistor Sistor
>> >
>> >
>> >> The transistor was invented (or more accurately its effect was
>> >> recognized)
>> >> in the 20's but its benefit went unrecognized for another 20 years.
>> >>
>> >> Carl
>> >> KM1H
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> >> From: "jeff" <jeffv at op.net>
>> >> To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:33 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] The Halli Transistor Sistor
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>> >> >> Now we all know that Bell Labs invented the transistor, right?
>> >> >
>> >> > No - it was back-engineered from `foreign technology' in 1947 or so
> :)
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Speaking of which, was the transistor a natural outgrowth of the
> tube?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > -----
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