So What Was the Transistor Good For ... a fun product to catch the nation's attention. They thought a radio was just the thing to make a splash. TI built the transistors; Regency built the ...

Just as digital camera makers would with megapixels four or five decades later, makers of transistor radios would cram as many transistors as they could into their products in a game of one-upmanship.

Just as digital camera makers would with megapixels four or five decades later, makers of transistor radios would cram as many transistors as they could into their products in a game of one-upmanship.

My first battery-powered radio — a ten-transistor Realtone — came from ... Maybe someday… One of the great things about our growing number of local low-powered community FM stations is ...

Before the MP3 was the Walkman and before that was the "tranny" - the transistor radio. Personal radios existed before their mass popularity in the 1960's, but then they became a teenage 'must-have'.