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Is anyone surprised?
On Jun 18, 10:32*pm, CaveLamb wrote:
Quote above: * TI had already spent millions developing machinery and techniques for * working with silicon, The money for a lot of THAT research is what the guys are talking about. -- Richard Lambhttp://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelambhttp://www.home.earthlink.net/~sv_temptress But then they are wrong. Texas Instruments was primarily a company that made equipment for finding oil. When the transistor was invented at AT&T, Texas Instruments realized that while the transistors were very limited in power and frequency, they were a lot better than the vacuum tubes TI was using in seismograph equipment. And they went into the transistor business. At this time there was not a lot of money from the military because it was just after WWII. The sorts of things that paid for research were things like the transistor radio. And as transistors improved they could be used in more things. So money was spent in researching how to improve transistors. Not much government money was spent in " developing machinery and techniques for working with silicon ". Dan |
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On Jun 19, 2:43*am, CaveLamb 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 |
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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 |
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CaveLamb wrote: Dan, I'm going to leave you now with two words - prior art. NOTHING is invented out of thin air. No that is incorrect In the Usenet universe EVERYTHING is invented out of thin air |
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jim wrote:
CaveLamb wrote: Dan, I'm going to leave you now with two words - prior art. NOTHING is invented out of thin air. No that is incorrect In the Usenet universe EVERYTHING is invented out of thin air Don't you mean "HOT air"? -- Richard Lamb http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb http://www.home.earthlink.net/~sv_temptress |
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