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Old 10-25-2019, 12:20 PM   #1
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They were also bullshitting us in 1948 when they made a transistor?
The Transistor was invented by Bell Labs not IBM. Just so you know.
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Old 10-25-2019, 08:44 PM   #2
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The Transistor was invented by Bell Labs not IBM.
Where is any implication that IBM developed the transistor? Apparently the esoteric point (ie objectives of fundamental research verses creating a useful products) was overlooked.

Google has done something that other once successful companies did and do no more - ie GM, Sears, Xerox, and GE. And the so many that are now gone because they stopped doing it - ie Kodak, CDC, Unisys, ship builders, TWA, Pullman, AT&T, Goodrich, Polaroid, and various steel manufacturers.

Gravdigr's citation makes a same point. That point was quoted.
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