Sentences with phrase «small transistor radios»

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.

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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.