On Thursday, February 27, 2014 5:07:46 PM UTC-5, Bryan-TGWWW wrote:
>
> He's right. You post bullshit on a regular basis. Having 6 of the 12
> transistors wired as mere diodes is a long way from having 5 of 6
> transistors not even "wired up."
>
No it's not. Back then transistors were very expensive due to a poor yield in
the manufacturing process. The ones that failed were either wired as diodes or
not wired into the circuit at all. If you had been around in the late 1950s /
early 1960s you would know that. (Do you really believe that the designers
didn't know how to make a simple radio circuit?)

Radios were expensive. Cheap Asian transistor radios were flooding the market with claims of using more transistors than they actually were. The quality of the radio was equated with the number of transistors.

As a food analogy it's like selling 10 grams of saffron that really only
contained 5 grams of stigmas, the rest being filler.

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