From whroberts@iquest.net Tue Jul 06 18:25:32 2004
Subject:Re: The original vs. state of the art

Let me restate. For some reason transistors were not used in most organs until
the early 1960's. I am basing that on the fact that Allen organs switched to
transistor oscillators in 1959, and when Rodgers organs started in 1959 or
1960, they used transistor oscillators.

Quoting elggobo :

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> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Bill Roberts
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> wrote:
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> > Transistor technology emerged in the 1960's, not the '50's.
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> Are you sure?
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> 1947 - Transistor invented
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> 1954 - First commercial transistor radio
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> 1954 - IBM announce switch to transistors
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> 1959 - Integrated circuit invented
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