<story><title>The Transistor, Part 3: Endless Reinvention</title><url>https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/the-transistor-part-3-endless-reinvention/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pgcudahy</author><text>This series of longform articles is incredible. The first batch are on the history of the switch and probably add up to a shortish book in length. There&amp;#x27;s a nice focus on how at several steps there were many who discovered a new innovation, but there were fewer who had a clear grasp of what their innovation meant and could carry the field forward. Can&amp;#x27;t wait for this author to publish a book.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Transistor, Part 3: Endless Reinvention</title><url>https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/the-transistor-part-3-endless-reinvention/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fernly</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m amazed at how fast things moved in the computer industry. Per the article, FETs only just began to work in 1960, but by 1964 Seymour Cray at CDC was completing the 6600[1], a &amp;quot;supercomputer&amp;quot; with massive numbers of them.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;CDC_6600&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;CDC_6600&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>