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Re: Transistorized

At 12:28 PM -0700 11/4/99, Rondo Jeffery wrote:


I was born eight years before the transistor was invented. I
remember when portable radios came out that used transistors rather
than tubes. They were impressive in that they were instant-on, with
no annoying warm-up time like tube radios had. They were called,
naturally, 'transistor radios.' You may still hear portable radios
called that today, though almost everything is made with integrated
circuits these days.


but there aren't MANY integrated circuits that don't have transistors
as their major circuit element!

Maybe they are MOS transistors instead of the original junction
transistors, but they are still transistors!

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