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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (54008)	8/23/2009 6:22:16 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 217820

I quite vividly remember buying my first transistor pocket radio around 1962. Naturally I unscrewed the back right away to see what was inside, and was utterly amazed by the neat layout of all the tiny miniaturized components. My previous radio was a large hulking 1950s tube set, probably a Philco. Later I went back to the same shop to buy components for my own science project radio. Transistors had seemed so exotic a decade earlier, but now I could buy individual Motorola transistors with money from my paper route! It really opened up my world to something new.