cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20907375

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4649344

kewl

cross-posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/15044893

https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/first_silicon_transistors.html

::: spoiler image description Image of a magazine advertisement with the title text "silicon transistors now in production!"

Text at the bottom left identifies it as the June 1954 issue of ELECTRONICS.

The advertisement consists of a row of eight three-pin solid state components "growing" in a field. There is a building in the distance behind them. The components are alternately labeled with Texas Instruments' Map-of-Texas logo and the number "900". From left to right, each component is closer to the viewer, and the fifth-to-closest one is labeled "actual size".

This text is overlaid on the image:

silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market ... brought to you first by Texas Instruments, a leading transistor manufacturer. A new and unrivaled degree of design freedom is created by the TI n-p-n gr