AHC and WI: Earlier Transistors

[MacCaulay]

first mosfet was made in 1949 (and it worked really bad, that's the reason for bjt being used until the '70)

Mosfet...Mosfet...where have I heard that before...

*looks at gear*

Also, take into consideration that electronic development need a market, and you have not it in early '900.

You make this, you'll get a market:

(I had to.)





Every time I think about transistors coming earlier, all I can think about are solid-state amps and loads of pedals appearing about 30 or 40 years before they actually did, which would change music.

 

[John Fredrick Parker]

Could be we hear stuff a lot like this?