Nazi Transistors

Apparently, an early transistor device was created in Germany in 1934. Nothing ever came of it, but given Germany's scientific expertise it seems plausible that something could have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Heil

Given the board's penchant for dystopia I have no doubt that this will somehow result in Germany turned into an atomic wasteland, but I am curious.
 

hammo1j

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Transistors would be used in battlefield computers typically for ballistics, encryption and decryption. Expect better aimed torpedoes from the U-Boats and artillery, but the big problem for the Allies might be that the more complex transistorised encrypt/decrypt on Enigma might not be crackable.

Eventually these will lead to the programmable digital computers. After total victory expect such titles on the Reichstationen 3 as "Sealion 4: amphibious assault" and "New York: Amerikabomber".
 
Transistors would be used in battlefield computers typically for ballistics, encryption and decryption. Expect better aimed torpedoes from the U-Boats and artillery, but the big problem for the Allies might be that the more complex transistorised encrypt/decrypt on Enigma might not be crackable.

Eventually these will lead to the programmable digital computers. After total victory expect such titles on the Reichstationen 3 as "Sealion 4: amphibious assault" and "New York: Amerikabomber".
I do not think it would lead to an Axis victory, or at least, not if the butterflies make luck be even more with the Nazis, by a quite significant degree.
The War would be even costlier for the Allies then OTL, though (unless they manage to steal the transistor designs soon after the invention of said thing, which is unlikely, but in such a case, they'd have the same advantages as the Nazis, though slightly later).
 
As with most PoDs before 1939, the butterfly effect will make Nazi victory impossible, as they will remove the amazing run of good luck that was absolutely essential to the Fall of France.
 
unless they manage to steal the transistor designs soon after the invention of said thing, which is unlikely, but in such a case, they'd have the same advantages as the Nazis, though slightly later).
Heil patented his designs in Britain in 1935- so the Allies wouldn't need to steal it! They'd have to find out that the Nazis had made a practically successful one, though. I'd still expect Allied transistor production to start very soon after the first transistor-equipped U-boat is captured, if not before.
 
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