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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Homemade transistors, etc.
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Date: 28 Jul 90 00:09:47 GMT
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The connections were made with indium wire, not osmium.  The transistors
themselves were made by vaporizing different stuff onto glass microscope
slides heated on a hotplate.  These were thin film transistors, like what
is today used for making active-matrix LCD displays.