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Old 04-24-2013, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by W3XWT View Post
I think our first all-transistor was in either my parents' 1962 Meteor or their 1964 Impala...
That '64 Chevy would definitely be all-transistor, not sure about the '62
Mercury. Then another question might come up: when did they finally
switch to all silicon devices? Germanium units had a number of things
going for them (proven manufacturing processes for instance).
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