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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Transistor Trivia
Keywords: Who was first
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Date: 31 Oct 89 17:54:12 GMT
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In article <14290@well.UUCP> cygnet@well.UUCP (Joseph C. Decuir) writes:
>In trying to settle a bet I would like to know what company and year
>the first Transistor was shipped commercially? Also, who was the
>first to sell a Transistor radio and in what year?
>
>Would you please tell how you know this information.
>Thanks in advance.
>_Eric Cook_


Memory, that semi-volatile substance we all posess tells me that in the late
50's, Emerson made an eight-transistor radio that sold for about $88.00
whose model number was (natch): 888.  A friend of mine had one, but his
daddy was a physician while mine was only a bricklayer.

You can quote me, but don't put any money on me!  Does anybody else remember
that radio, and am I right about the price?  They had nice pastel cases in
the era's popular colors, you know, like aqua, lime, peach...


Rich
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