Posted on 10/15/2009 11:36:01 PM PDT by neverdem
BTTT.
Solaris, by Stanislav Lem
I recall when a 6 transistor portable AM radio was a biggy.
Hell, I remember going with my dad to buy tubes for the radio! That was back in the fifties.
Yeah, I also remember when the number of transistors was marketed as an indicator of a pocket radio's "quality" and/or "power". The funny thing is that soon, "Six-Transistor" radios ("Made in Japan") were common -- but they were the same old two-transistor circuits -- with four empty or non-functional transistor "cans" installed to up the visual count (and the price)...
Yeah, I also remember when the number of transistors was marketed as an indicator of a pocket radio's "quality" and/or "power". The funny thing is that soon, "Six-Transistor" radios ("Made in Japan") were common -- but they were the same old two-transistor circuits -- with four empty or non-functional transistor "cans" installed to up the visual count (and the price)...
The other four posts of that comment are fakes... ‘-)
Known as a “Transistor” or a “Sony”. I had one, an actual Sony, smaller than a pack of cards, and with a speaker that covered the front. Powered by a 9V battery, you could see the guts if you undid a screw on the back cover. It was crammed full. It came with an earplug and jack, much as we still see today. I remember listening to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” on it, which dates it to 1961.
My parents didn’t buy a TV - then it was black and white - until 1957. Yes, I remember the tube testers. And my grandfather had one of the first color televisions made, I beleive it was by Motorola.
Grandpa liked to watch baseball on TV. The fields and areas inside the diamonds were, well, sort of green. It wasn’t until 1960 that TVs really captured green all that well!
RE: colored film
As kids we used to watch a program called Rinky Dink
that was probably the first example of interactive media,
you could send off and get a plastic film that you’d
put over the screen and then using some kind of grease
pencil you could play games on the program like connect
the dots, word games, etc.
Yes, I’m older than saran wrap.
Over the past few years, graphene has been pretty danged popular as the topic of FR topics. :’)
...a team of physicists has taken a key step in fulfilling graphene's promise as a hotbed of exotic physics by showing that the electrons within it can team up to behave like particles with a fraction of the electron's charge. The effect is called the fractional quantum Hall effect, and it's an esoteric embellishment of an already esoteric phenomenon known as the Hall effect.The Hall effect was what led to the breakup, and obscurity for Oates as well as Hall. Thanks neverdem.
Ah, so that’s why it’s called the quantum Hall effect ... the missing Oates.
I dunno about this quantum computing thingy. I mean, when the Captain sticks his head in my cube and shouts “Ensign Drill, are the deflector shields up?” I’m gonna want to be able to answer something better than, “Probably, boss.”
What is the temperature range here?
This whole graphene study could wind up being a nasty kick in the Cooper pairs.
Can you help me out here? what temperature, specific. This ultra low temp crap is wearing thin.
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