Mister Transistor's Vintage Technology Pages

Hello, my name is Andrew Wylie and I live in Purley, England, not far from London. I call myself "Mister Transistor" because I have been interested in germanium semiconductor devices since about 1980, when I first realised that such things were becoming rare. I am especially keen on point-contact transistors, the first kind ever made. Nowadays there are a few other sites that specialise in such devices from the USA, so I emphasise my types from elsewhere in the world, although I do have many rare and historic US examples too. I also investigate integrated circuits from the 1960s, prior to the Intel era.

Click on this link if you want to read more about early semiconductors.

Another technology that interests me is bubble memory, a weird type of device from the early 1980s.

Click on this link if you want to read more about bubble memory.

I'm also interested in early integrated circuits (way before Intel, there are *lots*). USSR types are intriguing.

Click on this link if you want to read more about the first USSR integrated circuits.

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