Sorry, I was going to post this thread two days earlier.................better late than never.
Does anyone know the company who made the first plastic packaged transistors?
Old timers may remember that many years ago, transistors came in hermetically sealed metal cans. The reason was simple, vaporized germanium or silicon (the magic smoke) was injected at high pressure into the can. Seal it, and voila! you had a transistor. But those were expensive.
Plastic transistors reduced the price considerably. But I never understood how they packaged the vaporized silicon in an epoxy blob.
Anyways, those guys who invented it should have gotten the Nobel prize, instead of Shockley.
Does anyone know the company who made the first plastic packaged transistors?
Old timers may remember that many years ago, transistors came in hermetically sealed metal cans. The reason was simple, vaporized germanium or silicon (the magic smoke) was injected at high pressure into the can. Seal it, and voila! you had a transistor. But those were expensive.
Plastic transistors reduced the price considerably. But I never understood how they packaged the vaporized silicon in an epoxy blob.
Anyways, those guys who invented it should have gotten the Nobel prize, instead of Shockley.