[Hallicrafters] The Halli Transistor Sistor

Wed Jun 3 20:41:52 EDT 2009

The lawyers name wasn't John Edwards was it???

73' Chas

----- 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: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] The Halli Transistor Sistor

> 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?
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > -----
>>> >> > ThermionicEmissions - the blog
>>> >> > http://www.lockergnome.com/leftystrat
>>> >> >
>>> >> > ______________________________________________________________
>>> >> > Hallicrafters mailing list
>>> >> > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hallicrafters
>>> >> > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>>> >> > Post: mailto:Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
>>> >> >
>>> >> > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>>> >> > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>> >>
>>> >> ______________________________________________________________
>>> >> Hallicrafters mailing list
>>> >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hallicrafters
>>> >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>>> >> Post: mailto:Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
>>> >>
>>> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>>> >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > ______________________________________________________________
>>> > Hallicrafters mailing list
>>> > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hallicrafters
>>> > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>>> > Post: mailto:Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
>>> >
>>> > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>>> > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > -- 
>>> > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.
>>> > Checked by AVG.
>>> > Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.12.4/2081 - Release Date:
>> 4/26/2009
>>> > 9:44 AM
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> Hallicrafters mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hallicrafters
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
>>
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.
>> Checked by AVG.
>> Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.12.4/2081 - Release Date: 
>> 4/26/2009
>> 9:44 AM
>>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Hallicrafters mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hallicrafters
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html 