{"id":10490,"date":"2021-03-13T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/13\/making-transistors-in-1957\/"},"modified":"2021-03-13T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:58:00","slug":"making-transistors-in-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/13\/making-transistors-in-1957\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Transistors in 1957"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BillR7xtTxc\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to Thomas K4SWL for alerting us to this video &#8212; he had it on his excellent <\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/\">SWLing Post blog<\/a>. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Many things crossed my mind as I watched this video: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Pocket protectors! Pete recently noted that this was a common fashion accessory among electronic techs and engineers back in the day. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; HP test gear. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; &#8220;Extreme cleanliness&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t seem quite so clean. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; 550 transistors per hour. Now we have upwards of 50 billion on a single chip. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The Germanium salami that Pete mentioned in our last podcast. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Hints of Silicon&#8217;s impending replacement of Germanium. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; A transistor factory in Spring City, Pa. that &#8220;hums with excitement&#8221; (seemed kind of sleepy). <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The 1957 assumption that Philco transistors would be in the first orbiting satellite. Then came Sputnik.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The transistor that moves like a &#8220;Gulliver through Lilliputian lands.&#8221; <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Our voices or accents seem to have changed, at least the voice used in products like this. No one talks that way today. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; As I watched, I tried to remember if Pete&#8217;s CK722 was made by these folks. But no, that was a Raytheon product. Here is a nice short description of the early days of the CK722: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CK722\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CK722<\/a> <\/b><b> We need to learn more about the hobbyist Carl Todd.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Thomas K4SWL for alerting us to this video &#8212; he had it on his excellent SWLing Post blog. Many things crossed my mind as I watched this video: &#8212; Pocket protectors! Pete recently noted that this was a common fashion accessory among electronic techs and engineers back in the day. &#8212; HP test &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/13\/making-transistors-in-1957\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Transistors in 1957&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-juliano-pete","category-radio-history","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}