Early Motorola "all transistor" AC operated clock radio

[radiotvnut]

Well, you had crap and you had decent quality stuff all along. Most solid state radios from 1954-circa '65 had either the term "all transistor", "transistorized", or "transistor" printed on it. By the mid '60's, the term "solid state" started showing up. I figure the reason for the phrase change is because transistor radios had already become well established by the mid '60's and the term "solid state" sounded more modern. When IC's came into use, many radios carried the phrase "IC/solid state". I've even seen a few radios that said "all transistor solid state".