[NJARC] re: Trenton Times article

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:50:41 -0500

Gentlemen
The transistor in question is the FET or field effect transistor.  The
MESFET or MEtal Semiconductor FET was developed at RCA Labs by Lou
Napoli.  First transistor with one watt out at over 1GHz or 1000kmc if
you are old enough.  RCA developed the 4000 series of CMOS digital
devices which replaced TTL in just about everything that used digital
logic.  Try to find RTL, DTL or TTL devices to replace the broken parts
in your old digital equipment.  Tough to do!
Regards from Arkansas,
Jim

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Eugene Hertz
<[email protected]> writes:
> From what I've read about sarnoff, I wouldnt put it past him to lay 
> claim to the transistor (or even sheep cloning if he were alive 
> today) 
>  
> ;-)
>  
>  
>  
> Bill Riches <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > There was an even better one in the Trentonian on Sunday:
> >
>
http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=9875483&BRD=1697&PAG=461&d
ept
> _id=502176&rfi=8
> >
> > Hi Alex,
> 
> Great article however I question this paragraph:
> 
> And sitting on a display case, a simple notebook page begins with 
> the words,
> "Consider this," and followed by schematics and equations. The 
> result -- the
> work of an RCA scientist in 1963-- produced the first working 
> transistors
> that are still used today in everything from cell phones to 
> computers.
> 
> I thought that transistors were invented in 1948 by Bardeen and 
> Brattain at
> Bell Labs.
> 73,
> 
> Bill Riches, WA2DVU
> Cape May
> 
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