Transistor Structure: Bell Labs (1965)

LOL that's a good one! She is indeed.

John Ridley

Fran, you are everyone's best trans-sister!

BobC

I wonder how this guy would react if he was given the latest Intel processor chip to put under his microscope? He could spend a lifetime trying to figure it out by reverse engineering. What I really wonder is how the numbering convention of semiconductors was standardized. "1N" is a diode, "2N" is a transistor and "74xxx" is in the TTL family of mostly simple gates and logic. Somewhere there must have been a coordination in the industry that allows a 2N2222 transistor made in the early 70s easily purchased from multiple vendors today. Who organizes the 1N, 2N, TTL chip part numbers so if one company designs a new transistor their selection of a 2N number does not conflict with another vendor making a different transistor trying to use the same 2N number. I really wonder when and how all that coordination took place. Do you have a movie about semiconductor history? You seem to have just about everything. Thanks Fran for this classroom tutorial!

Matt Wietlispach

Dozens of 'prime' reels, and many large boxes of lesser tripe. 30+ years of collecting, so....

Fran Blanche

How many of these things do you have?! This is such a great stuff that I think it's worthy of its own channel. Fran's Archive or some such. Do you add the rounded corners yourself in editing, or is that part of the telecine process? Would love to see a video detailing how all this works.

EEVblog

I feel like he was bluffing at the end. I bet they had way bigget IC concepts than that, and just didn't want to show them.

Thanks for sharing, Fran! This is a jewel. We give most of these technologies for granted nowadays, but it is always enlightening to learn how they were presented when they were cutting edge innovations at the time. 👍🏻