On 6/19/2011 7:00 AM, wrote:
On Jun 19, 2:43 am, wrote:

BACK UP A STEP, PLEASE?

A Brief History of Texas Instruments

The company was established in Texas in 1930 as Geophysical Services by Clarence
Karcher en Eugene McDermott. Until World War II its main activity was soil
analysis for oil companies in the U.S. and the Middle East. Then it's main
customer became the U.S. Army, for which it made radar installations.

Somehow I do not think there was a big market for radar installations
immediately after WWII. The transistor was not invented until 1947.
So I am pretty sure that TI's main customers were not the military
when it started making transistors. Transistors were not used much in
radars for some time. All the radars I worked on while in the Navy
had no transistors.

Dan

TI's first volume customer was Regency radio.

http://www.regencytr1.com/Regency_Early_Years.html

Kevin Gallimore