At first I thought it a bit of an obnoxious idea, broadcasting music out into the silent wilderness, but when we're out there and we tune in on
small transistor radios, it is pretty cool.
Not exact matches
Once Sony found a foothold for the
transistor in
small, cheap, low - power devices, it was able to improve the technology in the decades and years ahead until it was eventually making the TVs and
radios that RCA had wanted to sell.
Meanwhile, the
transistor got its start in
small, low - power devices such as hearing aids and the staticy - sounding pocket
radios sold by Sony starting in the 1950s.
This seems to be a key feature of his theory: The
small personal computer did not supplement the large business computer of the early days of the computer revolution, but instead served those who didn't have any computers at all; the
transistor - driven
small radio was embraced by those who had no other access to
radios.
Christensen offers many examples from business history: the large business computer was displaced by the personal computer, the fixed
radio set by the
small transistor - driven portable.
The
transistor could enable
smaller, less power - hungry devices; it could not handle the power that the electronic products of that age — tabletop
radios, floor - standing televisions, and early digital computers — required.