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News Transistor celebrates its 60th birthday

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by CardJoe, 17 Dec 2007.

  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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  2. BioSniper

    BioSniper Minimodder

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    Happy birthday transistor, I shall have a pint in thy honour.

    Long live the transistor, woot and all that.
     
  3. HellRazor

    HellRazor What's a Dremel?

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    *Salutes transistor*

    Thank you mr. Transistor, without you my job would suck-literally! (designing chips with vacuum tube...YUCK!)
     
  4. Kipman725

    Kipman725 When did I get a custom title!?!

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    erm it's not the 60th birthday of the transistor.. they have been around since the 1940's at least as very expensive unreliable devices. I think this 60th aniversiry may be the 60th aniversiry of a transistor design that worked better?
     
  5. DXR_13KE

    DXR_13KE BananaModder

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    anyway happy birthday.....
     
  6. wyx087

    wyx087 Homeworld 3 is happening!!

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    it's amazing that we are still using the Transistor..... i really hope they can come up with some new technology, since soon, when we reach 32nm, it'd be near impossible to go any smaller, faster.

    anyway, happy birthday.

    in reply to your article's last comment: i did, in fact, used a few of those old Bipolar transistors to make an amplifier based on Long Tail Pair, and soon, the burnt down building will be rebuilt, where every undergraduate's chip projects can resume using the clean room
    (cookie for whoever can guess which university had their clean room burnt down 2 years ago)
     
  7. Brooxy

    Brooxy Loser of the Game

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    Southampton Uni.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4390048.stm

    Remembered one of my mates from soton telling me about it. Dang my memory is good....

    And in other news...

    Happ B'day transistor. Looks like I have my excuse to have a pint tonight. Without transistors, i'd be extremely bored.
     
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  8. wyx087

    wyx087 Homeworld 3 is happening!!

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    great memory, cookie!
    [​IMG]

    yeah right, i was using a 10% effecient solar cell made by the clean room before it's burnt down...... Stanford are producing 30% and best was 40% efficient solar cells.
     
  9. kosch

    kosch Trango in the Mango

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    Its about time they reverse engineered some more alien technology!
     
  10. The_Beast

    The_Beast I like wood ಠ_ಠ

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    Happy Birthday :confused:
     
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