78 years ago a company invented a high frequency transistor which it used to build a computer for the US Navy, the first all-transistor car radio, the first all-transistor phonograph and the first battery-powered portable transistorised TV. The company built the first active repeater satellite and, in 1963, designed, built and installed all the consoles …
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