Innovating with Transistors

We look how the invention of the transistor changed everything.

Slides

• 02-SolidState.pptx

Videos

• Solid State: Starting with Tubes - Part 1 (10:29)
• Solid State: From Tubes to Transistors - Part 2 (10:24)
• Solid State: From Transistors to Gates - Part 3 (17:31)

Demonstrations

• Building a CMOS Nor Gate From Transistors (8:04)

Discussions

• Transistors and Solid State Computing (Login Required)
  

Assessments

• Quiz: Solid State Computing (Login Required)
  
• All Gates Truth Tables (Login Required)
  
• Building a Not Gate with CMOS Transistors (Login Required)
  
• Building a Nor Gate with CMOS Transistors (Login Required)
  

References

• AT&T Archives: A Modern Aladdin's Lamp, about vacuum tubes,1940
• AT&T Archives: Genesis of the Transistor

• IEEE Spectrum: The Silicon Dioxide Solution

• The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology
• AT&T Archives: Microworld
• YouTube: I Built A Dice Without Writing a Single Line of Code

Bonus

• IEEE Computing Conversations: Gordon Bell on the Building Blocks of Computing
• IEEE Computing Conversations: The Living Computer Museum
• IEEE Computing Conversations: Resurrecting the CDC 6500 Supercomputer video
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