Re: Favorite electronics movies

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:18:58 -0800, Richard Henry wrote:

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> "Dirk Bruere at Neopax" <dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I'd like to see someone interface to a USB port using 1930s tech.
>> Would it be possible?
>
> Low-speed, maybe, if they can get enough tubes together to do the logic and
> memory.

It took a bit of googling, but this might be interesting:
http://www.maxmon.com/history.htm

"1926 AD First patent for a semiconductor transistor"

So, yes, if anybody'd thought of it, it was pretty much off-the-shelf by
then. :-)

Cheers!
Rich


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