{"id":466,"date":"2008-06-02T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:24:08","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-transistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/466\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-transistor","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Transistor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/transistor_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/transistor_small.jpg\" alt=\"RCA Transistor Ad - 1953\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The transistor &#8212; need I say more?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s give a big round of applause to the electronic component that made our current computer revolution possible: the transistor.  Here&#8217;s an advertisement from RCA touting the benefits of solid state transistor technology from a time when it was still novel.  55 years later, we&#8217;d be cramming 300 million of these onto a single piece of silicon smaller than a penny.  And Microsoft Word still runs slowly.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Scientific American, April 1953 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What was your first computer&#8217;s CPU clock speed?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transistor &#8212; need I say more? Let&#8217;s give a big round of applause to the electronic component that made our current computer revolution possible: the transistor. Here&#8217;s an advertisement from RCA touting the benefits of solid state transistor technology from a time when it was still novel. 55 years later, we&#8217;d be cramming 300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-technology-commentary","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}